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going on as a remedial and natural measure, to get rid of 

 the foreign or poisonous matter which is in the blood. 

 The breathing is now labored and the heat of the body is 

 variable, the skin and hair are now looking unhealthy, 

 and fever is high. If the mouth and nose be examined 

 eruptions and sores will be seen, and these sometimes ex- 

 tend to the feet. All of those symptoms are now speedily 

 followed by discharges from the nose and eyes, of pus 

 streaked with blood. Salivation and diarrhoea supervene, 

 together with stupor, and with all the phenomena of ap- 

 proaching death. Cows heavy in calf and other debili- 

 tated animals as in this disease, and so with pleuro-pneu- 

 monia die sooner, and do not bear up under it so well as 

 animals in better condition. The intelligent and careful 

 reader cannot fail to see several prominent and important 

 symptoms common alike to this disease and epizootic 

 pleuro-pnenmonia, which see. 



Treatment. — The indications of treatment are at once 

 apparentfrom the nature, symptoms and post-mortem, or ap- 

 pearances after death. All taken somatically and con- 

 sidered, amount to this, namely, the animal is affected with 

 fermentation of the blood, consequently upon inflamma- 

 tion and deterioration of the fibrous serous tissue of the 

 body, accompanied with fever of a typhus type. Then the 

 first thing to be done is, to build up the system and ar- 

 rest fermentation by the elimination or neutralization of 

 the Zumin, leaven, or ferment. For this purpose then, we 

 will order the following powder: Powdered carbonate of 

 ammonia, one ounce ; powdered sulphate of iron or cop- 

 per, three drachms ; powdered gentian root, half an ounce; 

 powdered ginger root, half an ounce ; mix and make one 

 dose, and give one dose of the powder morning and night. 

 In the middle of the day give one ounce of sulphite of 



