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of my medicine, but we increased the dose to almost double the 

 amount of quinine, and gave every four hours, and she came out of 

 it all right. This Brown lost a cow, I think, in Sej^tember with 

 this disease, and I think she was a dry cow ; at any i-ate this one was, 

 and he was feeding her to fat. 



"This disease has been so peculiar in its commencement and 

 progress, that I can't say very much to give you light on the subject. 

 I have told you almost all the symptoms in these cases, except that' 

 in perhaps one-half the cases there is a great desire and good deal of 

 effort to urinate, but with no great amount of urine ; one of the 

 cows, after she had recovered a few days, had a large abscess on her 

 side, which indicated a bad state of the blood, 



" I cannot make out that the disease is really contagious. Most of 

 the cases, however, are in herds that have run on adjoining faims ; 

 and then, again, there are cases that have not been near any of the 

 disease, as any one knows of. D. C. Milliard says his oxen had not 

 been with or near his cows till after the third one died, and that 

 they had not run on the Green River at all, and had not been with 

 the cows more than three weeks, and he thinks they must have 

 taken the disease from the cows ; but the other ox has not been sick, 

 nor have any more of his cattle been sick. Again, there are herds 

 of cows right below him that have been exposed by his cows, and 

 yet have not been sick. 



"It appears to me just like typhoid fever in its coming to a town 

 or neighborhood ; some families Avill have fever, perhaps all, and yet 

 again not more than one ; maybe three or four families will have it 

 adjoining, and then again skip two or three ; and like such fevers it 

 appears to be a jjoison of the blood, and in all probability the poison 

 is taken into the system sometime before they are sick, and they are 

 taken sick in (so far as danger to life is concerned) proportion to 

 the amount of poison, and its deleterious effects upon the system. 

 There appears to be a loss of fibrine about the blood of all I have 

 examined, but still I cannot ascertain any cause for the disease that 

 gives me the least satisfaction, nor why the cows in our vicinity 

 should be diseased more than in any other parts of our towns or 

 county. I only know this, that such is the fact, and that it does 

 appear to be of a malarious character ; and I do believe that the 

 medicine I have given, in a case that has got twenty-four hours to 

 live (or in other words, that would live twenty-four hours without 

 treatment), will cure all or almost all, if properly given and at- 

 tended to." 



