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pzusiure upon which the Texan cattle had been, became sick. 

 Thus it is shown that our view of the cause of the disease 

 is the only correct one ; for, if it be not so, Mr. Went- 

 worth's cattle, from their proximity to those from Texas, 

 would have taken sick also. No fence or enclosure, when 

 the wind blows towards it, can or will keep out atmos- 

 pheric air impregnated with an infection. 



Post-mortem. The heart, liver, lungs and spleen are con- 

 gested; the gall bladder is swollen to several times its 

 natural size, and filled with a dark, yellowish-brown fluid ; 

 the food in the stomach is in a hard, dry and caked 

 condition, with no progress made towards digestion; the 

 stomach is friable and easily torn. We would here add 

 that though the spleen be enlarged, heavy, and filled with 

 blood, it is not a sufficient reason for the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture to call the disease " Spleenic Fever ;" it is the 

 eifect of a cause, and not the disease itself. 



Treatment. Give large doses of epsom or glauber salts, 

 dissolved in great quantities of molasses water. If no 

 relief follows in twenty-four hours, repeat the dose, bearing 

 in mind all the while that great quantities of fluid or cold 

 water is a means to overcome the dry condition of the 

 impacted stomach. Indeed, the cure has a good deal of a 

 mechanical nature about it, for large drenches of water 

 with the salts, do not only assist their action, but in many 

 cases wash and dissolve the dry feed into a soft mass or 

 pulp, which will readily pass away, and the poor beast be 

 relieved from pain, and cured. Suspect this disease when 

 occurring after a good grass growing spring, succeeded by 

 a dry, scorching summer, converting grass into spindles 

 containing no moisture, and little nutritive properties. 



niroat Diseases. — (See Bronchitis.) 



