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Treatment. A laxative (Epsom salts) ; astringent mouth- 

 wash (borax and tinctm-e of myrrh 1 oz. each, water 1 qt. ; 

 or carbolic acid 1 dr., honey 2 oz., vinegar 1 pt., water 1 pt.) ; 

 a lotion for the teats (carbolic acid \ dr., glycerine 10 oz.) ; 

 and a dressing for the feet (oil of vitriol 1 oz., water 4 oz., 

 to be applied with a feather after cleaning the space between 

 the hoofs by drawing a cloth through it). After dressing, 

 tie up the feet in a tar bandage. The hind feet are easily 

 di-essed if two men raise each separately with a long, stout 

 fork-handle passed in front of the hock. In di-essing the 

 feet all detached horn should be removed and a poultice 

 applied if inflammation runs high. Soft cold mashes or 

 thinly sliced or pulped roots are the best food throughout. 



Prevention. Importation of diseased animals should be 

 sufficiently guarded against. Diseased stock should be 

 rigidly secluded from all but the necessary attendants, who 

 ought to be disinfected on leaving the enclosure. Wild ani- 

 mals, even birds, should be excluded. Every place where 

 the diseased have been should be closed for a winter or dis- 

 infected, the milk should be buried in a safe place, or boiled 

 and given to pigs ; manure, infected litter, etc., may be burned, 

 or disinfected, removed, and ploughed under by horses. lS.o 

 diseased animal should be moved until fifteen days after full 

 recovery, and it should first be sponged over With a carbolic- 

 acid wash. 



ETJSSIAN CATTLE-PLAGUE. EINDEEPEST. 



A contagious fever of cattle communicable to other rumi- 

 nants and characterized by a general congestion of the mu- 

 cous membranes, but, above all, those of the stomach and 

 intestines, and an excessive growth and shedding of the 

 superficial layers of cells on the skin and mucous mem- 

 bi'anes. It is only propagated by contagion, at least, out of 

 the Kirghiz steppes and Kherson district in Southern Kus- 

 sia, but spreads farther on the air than Aphthous Fever-. 



