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dicines to have prevented Death 5 but I think this Cafe 
is (till a further Confirmation of the Neceffity of plen- 
tiful Bleeding as foon as a Bcaft falls ftek, efpecialiy 
if a Shortnefs of Breath enfues: This Cow was not 
come to the Stage of Purging. 
From the Diftemper getting into the Park, I 
think there is Reafon to conclude it cannot arife 
folely from any Fault in the Food, becaufe the Paf* 
ture is always good there, and, from the great 
Number of Horfcs, always kept low ; and the Soil 
never dunged or manured 5 and the Cows have 
Plenty of Hay in Winter. How it got into the 
‘Park is very ftrange ; there having been no frefh 
Cows brought in there fince Weljh-Fa'ir in Angufi . 
And this is further very obfcrvablc, that tho* this 
Diftemper feems fo very infeftious among the 
Cow Kind, yet I do not hear any of the Deer have 
fallen ill ; which is much more likely to happen to 
them than to the Horfes, becaufe they chew the 
Cud, thefe do not. I humbly therefore fuggeft, whe- 
ther it would not be the mod likely means to put a 
Stop to the fpreading of the Diftemper, to forbid any 
Cows or Calves, being brought to Market, to be 
fold alive, or that any Farmers fhould buy in any frefh 
Cattle for fix Months, or till it is found, that the 
Diftemper is intirely ceafed ; and that all fat Cattle 
fhould be kept carefully feparated from the Cows 
and Calves, and that under fevere Penalties. 
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