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and gulping — which characterizes the breathing of all, or most all 

 that have been sick. 



" I then prepared the following prescription : — 



" Rosin pulvis, elm bark pulvis, ginger root pulvis, cayenne pepper 

 pulvis, each one dram ; cincho quinine, two scruples. Mix in half 

 pint warm water and give every two to four hours. 



" They gave the ox two doses, four hours apart ; then Milliard 

 learned of some other remedy, and gave the ox, but he died in the 

 same manner as did the others, and with the same general appear- 

 ance. I would here state that all the cattle that have died, that 

 any one has seen, have died in most terrible pain and convulsions. 



" The next cow sick was owned by a Mr. Jones ; gave the above 

 prescription and she got well; the next was H. D. Hollenbeck's, 

 found dead in the morning ; did not know as she was sick. I ex- 

 amined her Nov. 7, and found the same things in all respects as far 

 as disease, like Milliard's. Next was G. M. Hollenbeck's ; died with- 

 out treatment ; showed same condition of things. Next was H. D. 

 Hollenbeck's, discovered in the afternoon of November 10 ; gave 

 medicine immediately, took four quarts blood, reaction came on, her 

 horns became so hot that they were uncomfortable to hold in the 

 hand ; gave medicine every four hours ; cow recovered about the 

 fourth day. I did not think the bleeding did any good. She 

 began eating and increasing in her milk. In all cases of milch cows, 

 loss of milk is a universal and constant symptom. 



"November 16, D, C. Milliard had a cow taken sick; gave the 

 medicine and she recovered. November 22, George Lee, of Ashley 

 Falls, lost a cow in the same way ; died in about four hours from 

 first symptoms. I did not see her nor did she take any medicine. 

 The man who opened her said the stomach was not, in his opinion, 

 healthy ; the spleen was diseased ; he described a falling off of the 

 mucous membrane of the stomach, or rather an adherence of the 

 epithelial covering of the mucous membrane to the contents of the 

 stomach — which I discovered in all cases, and which I think is 

 post mortem. I think, from what I can learn from the man, that the 

 cow died with the same disease. November 29, Gilbert Ford lost 

 a cow ; found dead in the morning ; did not know she was sick, only 

 that she had a peculiar breathing the night before, of which Ford 

 thought nothing. The next day he found another cow breathing in 

 the same way, and sent for me. We gave the medicine ; she was sick 

 in the same way as others and very bad, but she recovered after a 

 few days. December 18, Rawson Brown found a cow sick ; sent for 

 me ; she was growing rapidly w^orse ; he did not think it of much use 

 to give anything more, for he had got and given already two doses 

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