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As a contagious Diftemper among the Cow-kind is no new thing, 
I thought proper to look into the Auttores de re ruftica > biK find none 
fofull in the Account of the Peftilence among Cattle as Columella, is, 
in Lib. vii. cap. 5. He advifes, as foon as any Signs of an infectious 
Diftemper are perceived, to drive the Cattle immediately into a dif- 
ferent Air, at as great a Diftance as can conveniently be done 3 to 
feparate the Tick trom the found j and that there fhould be no Inter- 
course between them, left the Infection be carried to the found. 
If thefe Cautions only were religioufly obferved by our Farmers, I 
think there is Reafon to hope the Contagion would foon be extin - 
guifh’d. I fhould advife the building feveral fmall Hutts with Faggots 
and Broom, at a Diftance one from another, in fome fallow’d Field, 
and there keep a Man conftantly to attend the fick Cattle, and to 
have every Beaft, as foon as it begins to ficken, removed into one of 
thefe Hutts, as into an Infirmary ; by which means the Cow-houfe 
will be kept clear from Infection : And never let this Man go near 
the well Cattle, but keep them in the moft diftant Paftures, and let 
them have Hutts run up likewife t.o fhelter themfelves under from 
the Inclemencies of the Weather, providing them with clean Straw 
to lie on. I heartily wifh we had the Experience to fay with Colu- 
mella, Evincendi font autem quamvis pefiiferi tnorbi 3 <gr exquifitis 
remediis propulfondi. He recommends a Drench made of a Wheat- 
JVlafh made with All-heal, Eringo-Roots, and Fenel-feeds ,* and 
he fays he has known as an immediate Remedy, a Rowel made in the 
Ear with the Roots of the larger black Hellebore ,* and he fays, that 
Celfos advifes the pouring into the Noftrils Wine, in which Miflfel- 
toe-leaves have been bruifed. 
Thefe infectious Difeafes have not been confined to the Cow-kind 
alone, but fometimes the Contagion has been fo virulent as to attack 
all Sorts of Brutes as well as Men. Ovid mentions a dreadful Inftance 
in his Metamorph. lib. vii. 1 . 536. 
Strage canum prima, volucrumque, oviumque, boumque* 
And ibid. I. 538. 
Concidere infelix validos miratur arator 
Inter opus tauros 3 medioque recumbere fulco. 1 
Virgil gives an Account of fuch another contagious Sicknefs in his 
Georgic. lib. iii- 1 . 515. 
Ecce autem duro fumans fub vomere taurus 
Concidit, 6c mixtum fpumis vomit ore cruorem, 
Extremofque ciet gemitus : ■«< 
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