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ened, will remove the fetor, and usually give the ulcer a healthy 

 surface. 



No bleeding will be required here : the stage of acute fever is 

 passed. Physic should be given — one dose at least, whatever is 

 the state of the bowels, and even although the diarrhoea of typhoid 

 fever should be established ; but, at the san e time, the system 

 must be roused- and supported. A double dose of aromatic powder 

 should accompany the physic ; and, after that, the gentian, calum- 

 bo, and ginger roots should be regularly administered in powder, 

 suspended in gruel. Two drachms of gentian and calumbo, and 

 one of ginger, will constitute an average dose, and may be repeated 

 morning and night. 



The practitioner should pay considerable attention to the food. 

 It is not always that the appetite fails in this disease ; nay, may 

 remain unimpaired to the last ; but the soreness of the mouth 

 has prevented the animal from eating or ruminating. He should 

 be fed with gruel— some of it always within his reach, and he will 

 sip no inconsiderable quantity of it. More should be poured down, 

 or given by the stomach-pump — the latter being the better way of 

 administering it. When poured down bodily, it will generally find 

 its way into the rumen, and there be retained, and in a manner 

 lost ; but when given from the small pipe of the pump, and not too 

 strongly forced on, it will trickle down the gullet, and be likely to 

 flow on into the fourth, or true digesting stomach, and be converted 

 into immediate nutriment. 



This is one of the numerous class of diseases, under which the 

 animal either cannot labor a second time, or to which the constitu- 

 tion betrays an evident insusceptibility for a considerable period. 

 Cattle recovered from the blain have been purposely subjected to 

 contagion, without effect. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — The first thing to be done is to scrape 

 the pustules with a curved knife, an iron spoon, or a wisp of straw, 

 after which the part is to be well cleaned by means of a cloth steeped 

 in oil. Once the pustules have been removed, the tongue should 

 be touched every day with a eloth steeped in water, to Avhich some 

 drops of arseniciim have been added. This plan will suffice in 

 most cases. If symptoms of the disease still remain, for instance, a 

 fetid state of the breath, &c., acidum phosphoricum, alternately with 

 mercurius solubus, daily. 



THRUSH IN THE MOUTH. 



There is a disease, sometimes epidemic, especially in the spnng 

 and winter, when the weather is unusually cold and wet, that may 

 be mistaken, and has been so, for blain. It consists in the appear- 

 ance of pustules, or sometimes vesicles, not merely along the side 

 and at the root of the tonorue, but all over the mouth, and occa- 



