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and twelve ounces of glauber salts is poured down the 

 animal's throat, and clysters of salt, soap and warm water ad- 

 ministered. A fontanel of thirty grains of white sneezewort 

 is also applied. If an improvement is seen in twenty-four to 

 thirty hours, the following powder is given twice a day in 

 bran food : Gentian two ounces, saltpetre one ounce, cala- 

 mus-root one-half ounce, and golden sulphur of antimony 

 eight drachms. 



. The consumption of meat of animals belonging to herds 

 where the disease has broken out is highly dangerous 

 to man. It is true that it has sometimes from ignorance 

 or brutal disregard of danger been eaten with impunity, 

 but there are numerous examples where such meat, or 

 even its broth, has produced the death of whole families 

 or caused very dangerous symptoms. The milk of the sick 

 cows also possesses highly injurious qualities. All persons 

 who are engaged in treating or attending to the sick animals 

 must be very careful not to come in contact with their 

 blood or other humors. Those having sore or wounded 

 hands should not be allowed to go near the pp,tients. While 

 applying clysters and fontanels or giving internal remedies, 

 the hands should be protected by a coating of oil or by 

 gloves. Immediately after the manipulations the skin of 

 the operator must be washed with soapsuds or a solution of 

 chloride of lime wherever it has been soiled. The disease 

 is very easily imparted by contagion. Fatal results have 

 been produced where a drop of blood of the animal spirted 

 into the eye of the operator, or where a fly, after sucking 

 the blood of a patient, alighted on the face of a person and 

 pierced his skin. 



Remark. — The spleen disease caused by contagion in the 

 human being (and not by eating the meat of diseased cattle) 

 is called the black pox. Shortly after contagion the part 

 begins to itch and burn, and a blister is soon formed, which 



