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watery, slimy and bloody, with ‘straining. Arsenicum will be particularly 
good for a mucous, irritating discharge from the nose; alternately hot and 
cold surface; shivering; thirst; depressed spirits and strength; foul breath; 
swollen eyelids; feeble pulse; profuse diarrhoea, with offensive smell; gen- 
eral prostration of vital functions. This may also be tried as a preventive. 
When the lungs are much involved, and there is not the prostration which 
requires arsenicum, give phosphoric acid, alone, or still better, in alternation 
with belladonna. Rhus is needed for red and swollen skin, especially in the 
legs; stiffness; itching eruptions, which spread and grow moist; loss of 
power in the limbs; scurfy and grooved skin. 
AMERICAN RINDERPEST, OR TEXAS CATTLE DISEASE. 
This is an exceedingly infectious and contagious disease. It may be 
taken from cattle being with those infected, by contact with their litter and 
dung, or by walking on the same roads, and its virus may remain in a place 
for weeks or months. Cattle have died within four or five days after an 
exposure to the infection, but the time may be longer; indeed, the sickness 
may not show itself for a number of days. 
Symptoms.—A suspicion of the presence of the disease may lead to an 
examination with the thermometer, and the temperature will be found 
to be several degrees above the normal if the disorder exists. The first 
patent symptoms are trembling, disinclination to move, unsteady gait, skin 
alternately hot and cold, drooping head, appetite and thirst apparently 
normal, and the milk diminished in cows. About the fifth day there 
will be noticed shrunken sides; quickened breath; inability to rise or 
stand; continued efforts to urinate, resulting in small, bloody discharges; 
the dung passes hard and dry, with straining; the milk in cows grows less, 
not stopping wholly, and is of a thick,creamy consistence. Still later there 
will be drooping ears; base of the horns hot; eyes dull and staring; trem- 
bling in the flanks; listlessness; feet braced under the body and the back 
arched; head and ears more drooping than before; dung hard, covered 
with mucus and blood, and passed with effort; perhaps diarrhcea, and 
frequent discharges of dark, bloody urine; increased breathing, pulse and 
temperature; weakness; the animal falls, is unable to rise, and death ensues. 
Calves are seldom attacked, ifever. Milch cows are specially liable to the 
disease, and abortion is much more apt to occur during the disorder. 
TREATMENT.—It is not advisable to resort to treatment, the destruc- 
tion of the animal being best. Todide of potassa and chlorate of potassa 
may be used with advantage, if any treatment is undertaken. Carbolic 
acid surely has' some efficacy. The pure article or very strong solution 
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