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Mr. Bates , a worthy Member of this Society , has 
given us a very particular Account of the Sicknefs 
among the Cows in 1714. (fee Bhil. Tranf. N°. 358.) 
but he has omitted one Circumftance I remember 
myfelf, having feen many Cows die near Bethnal- 
Green i they commonly came to the Ponds to drink, 
were taken giddy, fell down, were convulfed, bled 
much at the Nofe and Mouth, and fo died. 
Dr. Lobby a very diligent and laborious Obfervcr 
of what occurs in his Profeffion, as his Hiftories of 
various Cafes of the Small Pox, and his curious 
Experiments on Diffolvents of the Stone, fufficiently 
evince, has lately publifhed, in a Collection of Let- 
ters relating to the Plague, an Inquiry into the Qua- 
lity of the Caufe of the contagious Sicknefs among 
the Cattle: It were to be wifh’d what he propoles 
were now tried *. 
As to the Diftemper now reigning among the Cat- 
tle, I am informed by the Cowkeepers, that a Cow 
fhall be feemingly well, and feed heartily over night, 
or in the Morning, and give the ufual Quantity of 
Milk 3 that in twelve Hours time they fhall all of a fud- 
den abate in- their Milk near half, and intirely fall 
off their Stomach, fo as neither to eat or drink, and 
then gradually lofe all their Milk. As foon as they 
perceive this, they give them a warm Mafn of Malt, 
or the following Drench : <{ Take two Ounces of 
<c Caraway-feeds, boil them in a Quart of Water, 
<e and (train it ; add a Gill of White-wine, and a 
“ Quarter of a Pound of Honey." 
Their 
* See his Letter to John Milner Efq, firft Commjjioner for exa- 
mining the State of the Dijlertper among the Cows. 
