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and careful reader cannot fail to see several prominent and 

 important symptoms common alike to this disease and 

 epizootic pleuro-pneumonia, (which see.) 



Trecdmeni. The correct method of treatment is at once 

 apparent from the nature, symptoms and post-mortem, 

 or appearances after death. All taken somatically and 

 considered, amount to this, that the animal is affected with 

 fermentation of the blood, consequent upon inflammation 

 and deterioration of the fibrous, serous tissue of the body, 

 accompanied with fever of a typhus type. Then the first 

 thing to be done is, to build up the system and arrest 

 fermentation by the elimination or neutralization of the 

 zumin, leaven, or ferment. For this purpose then, order 

 the following powder : Powdered carbonate of ammonia, 

 one ounce; powdered sulphate of iron or copper, three 

 drachms ; powdered gentian root, half an ounce ; powdered 

 ginger root, half an ounce; mix, and make one dose. 

 Give one dose of this powder morning and night. In the 

 middle of the day give one ounce of sulphite of soda daily. 

 The animal must be fed well and in a generous manner, 

 but not by any means to arrest digestion by over feeding. 

 Such, then, is about the plan I would recommend for the 

 cure of contagious typhus in cattle. I would add how- 

 ever, or take from, just as the indications appeared. Thus, 

 I would have them daily inhale for an hour sulphurous 

 acid gas. For the manner of using it, see Horse and Cattle 

 Medicines in this book. 



The treatment here offered will cure a major part of all 

 affected. The number will depend upon the condition of 

 the animals, whether they are cows and with calf, or are 

 debilitated animals, etc. 



English Treatment. Professor Gamgee, the great veteri- 

 narian says, little can be done beyond purging the animal, 



