Hisiory of Animal Plagices. iin 



the effect was answerable to my expectation, for in very many 

 instances I was not sensible of the least benefit. 



Herb. Aristoloch. Rotundas, 



Veronicae, aa V\. viij. 



Pulmonarise, 



Hyssopi, 



Scordij. aa tl].. 4. 

 Rad. Gentianae, 



Angelicae, 



Petasitidis, 



Tormentillae, 



CarlinEe, aa lb. ss. 

 Bacc. Lauri, 



Juniperi, aa Jxij. Misce, fiat Pulv. 



This powder is to be given in water, one ounce at a time, three 

 or four mornings successively ; then rest four days, and if the 

 disease continues, repeat the powders in warm water, as before. 



' I think there is no one method in practice but what was 

 tried on this occasion, though I cannot say that any of them 

 was attended with an appearance of success, except that of 

 bleeding plentifully, and giving great quantities of cooling and 

 diluting liquids. But by this method, the instances of success 

 were so few that they do not deserve any further mention. 



' Their Excellencies being informed that the feeding cows with 

 distillers' grains was a new custom, and was the cause of this 

 disease, gave me orders to examine into the truth of it; but 

 upon inquiry, I found it to have been the practice of several of 

 the cow-keepers above twenty years without the least appearance 

 of any inconvenience, and that some of those persons who had 

 suffered most had never given any. Nor is there any difference 

 between those of brewers and distillers, only that the latter are 

 the drier. 



' It was likewise said that the want of water was the cause of 

 this disease, for that the springs and places where people used 

 to water their cows were almost everywhere dry, and that many 

 were obliged to send them several miles for water. This might 

 produce diseases, but such only as they got by the fatigue of 

 being driven so far; for Mr Ratcliff, Mr Kufford, and Mr I'ullin, 



