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fills the whole mouth and throat ; and the 
animal is every moment in danger of being 
choaked. This diforder is more terrible in 
its confequences than the other, though it 
is not incurable ; but the remedy for it is 
fo little known, and fo badly adminiftered, 
that it feldom operates with fuccefs. Thofe, 
therefore, which appear to be in a defperate 
fituation, are killed, in order that their flefh 
and Ikins may not be loft. 
The klmV'fikte attacks the feet of oxen, 
caufes them to fwell prodigioufly, and often 
produces a fuppuration : the hoof drops off ; 
and when the animal walks, if one fees it 
behind, it feems as if it wore flippers. It 
may readily be fuppofed that, while in fuch 
a fituation, great care is taken not to remove 
it from its place. It is, indeed, fufFered to 
remain at reft as long as the malady conti- 
nues : it is an inconvenience net attended 
with any danger, and which terminates ge- 
nerally in a fortnight. 
This, however, is not the cafe with re- 
fpedl to the fpong-Jikte^ a terrible fcourge 
among horned cattle, and very alarming 
even for thofe of the hordes. This plague, 
which (pares nothirjg, caufes fpecdy deftruc- 
tion; 
