278 History of Animal Plagjics. 



A third account was read by this gentleman on January 9th, 



^ During the Christmas hoHdays we sent for some milk^ as 

 usual, from the vineyard in St Jameses Park, none of the cows 

 belonging to that house having as yet caught the distemper, 

 though three had already died in the Park. We used part of the 

 milk for chocolate, and set part by for cream for the next morn- 

 ing. The milk had a rank sourish smell, and taste like rank 

 butter, the cream next morning was more so. We boiled the 

 milk, which did not curdle, so we used the cream with tea, 

 though the taste was not very agreeable. The milk boiled 

 curdled in the tea; neither any of my family, nor a friend who 

 drank of it, found any inconvenience from it. Upon sending 

 the morning following for more milk, the people refused selling 

 any, saying one cow was taken ill, and another was near dry. 

 This was the cow whose milk we had had, and she died in forty- 

 eight hours. Next day another fell ill, and was knocked on the 

 head by the public officer, in about forty-eight hours after her 

 being seized. I had the curiosity to see this cow opened, which 

 was done the next day but one. The inflammation in general 

 in this creature was greater than what I had before seen in any 

 of those which died of the distemper. This cow had been blooded 

 about three weeks before she was taken, and once as soon as taken. 

 The caul {omentum) was greatly inflamed, the paunch inflamed, 

 and the inner coat peeled off, especially that of the abomasum ; 

 the o-uts were all inflamed, the liver was much inflamed in some 

 parts, in others was turned livid ; the gall-bladder was very 

 large, and the gall was very liquid ; the lungs adhered in many 

 places to the pleura, were greatly inflamed and turgid with 

 blood, and were in many places quite black. I did not find any 

 of the watery bladders on the surface of these, as 1 did on all the 

 others I had seen opened. Here^s an instance of the most sur- 

 prisingly quick progress of this distemper, and to such a violent 

 dep-ree, that I don't think it in the power of medicines to have 

 prevented death ; but I think this case is still a further confirm- 

 ation of the necessity of plentiful bleeding as soon as a beast 

 falls sick, especially if a shortness of breath ensues. This cow was 

 not come to the stage of purging. 



