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THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN. 
By Thomas Walton Mayer, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineer 
Field Equipment. 
( Continued from p. 253.) 
THE MURRAIN. 
The telegraphic dispatch from her Majesty’s consul at 
Memel to the Earl of Clarendon, published in your last 
number, together with the letter from the Times correspondent, 
written from Vienna, leave little doubt on the mind, that “ the 
real murrain or cattle plague,” “rinder pest,” the “loser 
durre,” is the same disease that spread its ravages over 
Asiatic and European Turkey in 1855 and 1856. 
Notwithstanding the precautions that are being observed 
in different parts of the continent against the spread of this 
disease, and the order in council published in our own country, 
I am of opinion that none of these measures will prevent the 
disease from reaching this country. It may not make its 
appearance in the severe epidemic form that it visited the 
East, because, in addition to the effects of climate, the cattle 
in this country are not exposed to that want of food and 
water, or the mixture of improper food, that too frequently 
occurs abroad, and which form the predisposing causes to the 
disease. But it will exist in some form I have not the least 
doubt, and attack in the greatest severity young stock that 
have been poorly kept. 
In addition to the symptoms already mentioned by me, in 
all cases the teeth became loose ; and in severe ones, where 
the animals survived more than twenty-four hours, ulceration 
of the intestines was frequently found to have taken place. 
As soon as an animal w r as perceived unwell, if he were in 
a state of collapse, w r hich was generally the case, at first 
Spiritus -ZEtheris Nit."et Tinctura Opii Ammoniatae, aa f)|ij.* 
were given in half a pint of linseed oil ; and every two or 
three hours, according to the size and strength of the animal, 
the following draught was administered, along with the 
* The use of this preparation of opium, I wish to bring prominently 
under the notice of my brother practitioners. It is a valuable preparation, 
and will be found of great service in dysenteric affections, especially in 
calves. That which I used was made after the following formula. It may 
