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' jjliood nevertheiefs runs out ; thofe Animals having naturalfy~a 
thick Blood, efpecially when the Fever has continued lo many 
Days. Whether therefore this Plague came firft from the 
foreign Beall, or any other way, it is the fame thing, when at 
laft it fell upon feme Animal in which there was the morbid 
Seminary or Ground prepared for it. 
In the dead Bodies of all the Cattle it was particularly obfer- 
ved, that in the Omafus, or Paunch, there was found a hard 
. compadt Body, firmly adhering to the Coats of the Ventricle, 
of a large Bulk, and an intolerable Smell : In other Parts, as in 
the Brain, Lungs, &c- were feveral Hydatides, and large Blad- 
ders fill’d only with Wind, which being open’d gave a deadly 
Stink ; there were alfo Ulcers at the Root of the Tongue, and 
Bladders fill’d with a Serum on the Tides of it. This hard and 
compact Body, like Chalk, in the Omafus, the Author takes 
to be the firft product of the contagious Miafma . He adds a 
Prognoftick, believing that from fo many Attempts and Expe- 
riments, and the Method obferv’d in the Cure of this Venom, 
at Jaffa true and Specifick Remedy will be found out to extir- 
pate the.poifbnous Malignity wholly: He alfo expe&s fome 
mitigation of it, from the approaching Winter and North 
Winds. Fie does not think this Contagion can affedt Human 
Bodies, fince even other Species of ruminating Animals, fym* 
bolizing with the Cow-kind, are yet untouch’d by it ; nor was 
the Infe&ion catch’d from the Air, provided due care was ta- 
ken in the burying the dead Bodies. 
As for the Cure of it : From the Qhirurgtcal Part he com- 
mends Bleeding, burning omboth Tides the Neck with a broad 
red-hot Iron, making Holes in the Ears with a round Iron, and 
putting the Root of Hellebore in the Hole, a Rowel or Seton 
under the Chin, in the Dew-laps, he alfo orders the Tongue 
and Palate to be often wafh’d and rub’d with V inegar and Salt. 
As for the Pharmaceutical Part; he recommends Alextyhxr- 
w*r/b,.andTp~cifick Cordials; and from the Vegetable. Kingdom^ 
three Ounces of Jefu its Bark , infus’d in 10 or 12 Pints of Cor- 
dial Water or fmall Wine, to be given in 4 or 5 Doles ; which 
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