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nally the badly diseased should be promptly destroyed and 

 burned or boiled, as they are necessarily important propa- 

 gators of the poison. The burning of mangers, racks, and 

 other woodwork that may harbor the germ is an obvious 

 necessity, and the saturation of floors with carbolic acid or 

 chloride of lime may be resorted to. 



Treatment. — This is only advisable where the disease is 

 local and superficial. In the parts about the mouth, and 

 even in the jaw-bone, the diseased masses may be scooped 

 out with a knife and the cavities stuffed with iodized carbo- 

 lic acid. This we have known to succeed even where the 

 enormous jaw-bone was hollowed out in many great cavities 

 opening alike externally and into the mouth. 



MILK SICKNESS. " THE TEEMBLES." 



A specific infectious disease peculiar to some unimproved 

 agi-icultural districts in Ohio, North Carolina, and other 

 States, usually occurring in cattle, and communicable 

 through meat, milk, and cheese to warm-blooded animals 

 generally. A spirillum existing in the blood has been de- 

 scribed as the specific germ. 



Symptoms. In cows in full milk the disease is said to 

 be productive of scarcely any constitutional disorder, the 

 poison being eliminated by the milk and proving very fatal 

 to the consumers. In cattle that do not yield milk, and in 

 other animals, the symptoms are torpid bowels, trembling, 

 great muscular weakness, swaying in the walk, inappetenee, 

 drooping head and eyelids, utter listlessness and stupidity, 

 some fever, and rapidly advancing debility and marasmus. 

 In man the moral sense is practically abolished as a mani- 

 festation of the general hebetude, and after death the large 

 intestines are found blocked with dry concretions not unlike 

 sawdust. 



The malady has been attributed to rhus and other vege- 

 table poisons, and to nickel among the mineral products, 

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