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Prevention. This would include drainage, shelter of pas- 

 tures by trees, avoidance of changes to cold or damp locali- 

 ties, a warm, sunny location for farm buildings, suitable 

 feeding and watering, the prevention and cure of all debili- 

 tating, and especially chronic diseases, protection against 

 overwork, or excessive secretion of milk on a stimulating but 

 insufficiently nutritious diet, securing young, undeveloped 

 animals against breeding and milking at the same time, re- 

 jection of tuberculous subjects from breeding, the prompt 

 removal of all such animals from pastures or buildings used 

 for the healthy, and the thorough disinfection of all places 

 where they have been kept. 



The flesh and milk of tuberculous animals are always to 

 be viewed with suspicion, but this poison, like others, can 

 be destroyed by the most thorough cooking. 



QTTEBEA BtTNDA. "BEEIBEEI. 



This affection of horses is said to have been developed in 

 the island of Marajo, in the mouth of the Amazon, as the 

 result of the slaughter of the immense herds of predatory 

 wild horses, and the decomposition of the carcasses under 

 the tropical sun. It has extended to the adjacent mainland, 

 and might easily be imported in the bodies of cheap Bra- 

 zilian horses. It has even been thought to be identical 

 with the Beriberi of man, in which case its introduction, 

 and domestication in our Gulf States would appear to be a 

 still more imminent contingency. The main symptoms of 

 the malady are a progressive paralysis of the hind limbs, 

 which renders the animal absolutely and permanently worth- 

 less. The Portuguese name, given above, means literally 

 broken Imttock. Our principal danger consists in the pos- 

 sibility of the germ being implanted and perpetuated in 

 the rich alluvial soils of our semitropical Gulf States, and 

 the consequent destruction of the equine races there, as they 

 now are put off in Brazil. 



