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THE FARM DOCTOR. 



lects, but more frequently the disease progresses to a fatal 

 issue. 



Treatment. — This is unsatisfactory as being rarely successful, 

 and even then in preserving an animal which is dangerous as a 

 breeder for producing a progeny predisposed to this disease, 

 and for slaughter and dairy purposes as possibly conveying the 

 malady to man. 



The most promising course is to secure dry, pure air, sun 

 shine, a genial temperature, rich and easily digestible food, 

 containing abundance of fat (linseed, corn, beans, peas, 

 potatoes), a course of tonics (linseed or cod-liver oil in small 

 doses, sulphate of iron, hypophosphite of iron, quinia, gentian, 

 etc.), and antiseptics (fumes of burning sulphur, bisulphite of 

 soda, sulpho-caibolate of iron, etc.). 



Prevention. — This would include drainage, shelter of pastures 

 by trees, avoidance of changes to cold or damp localities, a 

 warm, sunny location for farm buildings, suitable feeding and 

 watering, the prevention and cure of all debilitating and 

 especially chronic diseases, protection against overwork, or 

 excessive secretion of milk on a stimulating but insufficiently 

 nutritious diet, securing young, undeveloped animals against 

 breeding and milking at the same time, rejection of tuberculous 

 subjects from breeding, the prompt removal of all such animals 

 from pastures or buildings used for the healthy, and the 

 thorough disinfection of all places where they have been kept. 



The flesh and milk of tuberculous animals are always to be 

 viewed with suspicion, but this poison, like others, can be 

 destroyed by the most thorough cooking. 



