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I that their Cows had not given above half To much 
Milk that Summer as they did in others; that fome of 
I them were almofl; dry; that the Milk they did give 
( was much thicker, and yellower than in other Years. 
It was obferved by the whole Town, that very little 
of the Milk then fold wou’d Boyl without turning ; 
and it is a known Truth, that the weakeft of the com- 
mon Purges you can give a Cow entirely takes away 
I her Milk ; from all which Circumftances, I think it e- 
vident, that the want of that natural Purgation was 
the foie caufe of this Difeafe ; by producing thofe Ob' 
ftrudfions, which terminated in a Putrifadion and 
made this Didemper Contagious. 
During my daily Converfation at that time with Cow- 
keepers, &c. there occurred many other Circumftan- 
ces of iefs Moment, to confirm me in this Opinion : 
but as there was no one reafon to give me the lead 
notion of any other Caufe, I (hall not trouble the Rea- 
der with a ulelefs detail of them. 
Cows are like wife fubjed to a Purgation ftho’ in 
a lefs degree) from the fame quality in the Graft, about 
the latter end of Seftemher ; which is called the latter 
Spring; and which I believe contributed not a little, 
to the preventing the encreafe of this Difiemper; for 
this Purgation coming fo foon after the Difeafe appear- 
ed, it is not unrealbnable to fuppofe, that it freed 
fuch Cows as were not much injured, from the ill ef- 
'feds of thofe Obftrudions, occafioned by the want of 
their Vernal Evacuations. 
Several Phyfitians attempted the Cure, and made 
many Edays for that purpofe; but the Difiedions con- 
vinced me of the improbability of their fucceeding, 
with which I acquainted their Excellencies. However 
they having received the following Recipe and Dire- 
dions from fome in Holland, faid to have been uled 
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