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every time of bleeding; she soon recovered, now eats heartily, 

 looks brisk, and has not slunk (aborted) her calf. 



' The concern the cow-keepers are under for the loss of their 

 substance, the various methods offered to them, and their want 

 of judgment either to choose the most rational, or their want of 

 accuracy in making experiments and following directions, is 

 quite discouraging, and is the reason why none of them have 

 pursued any regimen so steadily as to give one an opportunity of 

 making conclusions from it; indeed, several own to me they are 

 quite bewildered, not knowing which way to turn themselves, 

 or whose advice to follow, what one says being quite contrary to 

 the directions given by another. Some to whom I have given 

 my directions have blooded once, have given the purge twice, 

 but have not given the oily drench, or have given this once, and 

 have not repeated it ; others have given the chalky drench once, 

 and not repeated it, and have not followed the other parts of my 

 instructions ; so that I am sorry to find that I can have no satis- 

 factory experiments made. Yet, as the state of the disease seems 

 to be so evidently a peripneumony, or inflammation of the lungs, 

 windpipe, and nostrils, attended with a redundance of gall, I 

 cannot forbear urging to the public the following method: 

 " Give to all cows in general, while well, half an ounce or an 

 once (according to the size of the cow) of crocus metaUorum. 

 As soon as a cow falls off her meat, give her another dose of 

 crocus metaUorum, and give her warm mashes of malt, bran, &c. 

 When she runs at the nose, lay a bag of malt-meal, wetted with 

 boiling water, upon the forehead and nose, tying it to her horns, 

 morning and evening; pour warm vinegar and salt into the 

 nostrils; if a short cough or difficulty of breathing comes on, 

 bleed her one quart twice a day, for three or four days, and 

 every six hours give the oily drench ; if a purging comes on, give 

 another dose of the crocus metaUorum ; if it continue, e:ive the 

 chalky drench every six hours ; and if it does not abate in 

 twenty-four hours, inject the same mixture by way of glysters; 

 and if the husky cough continues with the purging, give the oily 

 drench one three hours, and the chalky drench the next three 

 hours. ^' 



^Most of the cows which have recovered from this distemper 



