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treatment does good in some cases. When the purging 

 and passing of blood and mucus continues for more than 24 

 hours, the following mixture is said to give beneficial result : 



When diarrhoea has gone on for much longer than 24 hours, 

 J tolah of Gallnuts, finely powdered should be added to the 

 above mixture. 



1.013. The diet should consist of rice and Kalai gruel 

 well boiled and of thick consistency, to which should be 

 added some gur and salt. Water should be given at the 

 first stage of the disease when there is costiveness, heat 

 and discharge of mucus from mouth and nostrils, but when 

 diarrhoea sets in, the animal should not be allowed to 

 drink any water. No straw or other fibrous food should be 

 given. 



1.014. M th e animal lives for 8 or 9 days and gets little 

 pustules on the body, it generally recovers. 



1.015. Small-pox proper in cattle is not known as guti t 

 but as Besherd. It occurs as pustules on the teats and udder. 

 It is a harmless disease. Some inconvenience is felt at the 

 time of milking but that is all. Application of carbolic oil 

 .(i : 40) or butter, is all that is required by way of treatment. 



1.016. Inoculation. According to Koch, immunity from 

 rinderpest is conferred on cattle after a sub-cutaneous 

 injection of 10 c. c. of bile taken from the gall-bladder of 

 an animal which has succumbed to a virulent attack of 

 rinderpest. This immunity sets in on the loth day at the latest 

 and is of such an extent that even 4 weeks afterwards 

 40 c. c. of rinderpest blood could be injected without any 



^ injurious result. By mixing virulent rinderpest blood-serum 



