TOL. XLIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 17g 



ately took away out of the neck 5 quarts of blood by measure, and gave her a 

 warm mash of malt once in 6 or 8 hours : next day he cut her tail, and let her 

 bleed 2 hours; the day after he took away 2 quarts from under the tongue, and 

 so continued bleeding her, at 14 or 15 hours distance, for 7 times. She did not 

 purge at all ; her urine was as high-coloured as coffee at first, but grew paler and 

 paler every time of bleeding : she soon recovered, afterwards ate heartily, looked 

 brisk, and had not slunk her calf. 



The concern the cow-keepers were under for the loss of their substance, the 

 various methods offered to them, and their want of judgment either to chuse the 

 most rational, or their want of accuracy in making experiments, and following 

 directions, were quite discouraging, which was the reason why none of them have 

 pursued any regimen so steadily as to give us an opportunity of making conclu- 

 sions from it : indeed several owned that they were quite bewildered, not knowing 

 which way to turn themselves, or whose advice to follow, what one said being 

 quite contrary to the directions given by another. Some to whom he had given 

 his directions had blooded once, had given the purge once, but had not given 

 the oily drench ; or had given this once, and had not repeated it ; others had 

 given the chalky drench once, and not repeated it ; and had not followed 

 the other parts of his instructions; so that he was sorry to find that he 

 could have no satisfactory experiments made: yet, as the state of the disease 

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

 pipe, and nostrils, attended with a redundance of gall, he could not forbear 

 urging to the public the following method. 



" Give to all cows in general, while well, -i- oz. or 1 oz. (according to the size 

 of the cow) of crocus metallorum. As soon as a cow falls off her meat, give her 

 another dose of crocus metallorum ; 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, on her 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, come on, bleed her one quart twice a day, for 3 or 4 days, and every 

 6 hours give the oily drench : if a purging come on, give another dose of the 

 crocus metallorum ; if it continue, give the chalky drench every 6 hours, and if 

 it do not abate in 24 hours, inject the same mixture by way of clyster ; and if 

 the husky cough continue with the purging, give the oily drench one 3 hours, 

 and the chalky drench the next 3 hours." 



Most of the cows, which have recovered from this distemper, recover ' their 

 milk again, as their appetites mend ; but they are observed to have scabby erup- 

 tions come out in their groins and axillae, that itch much ; for a cow will stand 

 still, hold out her leg, and show signs of great pleasure, when a man scratches 

 these pustules or scabs for her. 



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