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standing, and all the medicines I could administer had no effect in 
removing it; and the longer it continued the louder it grew, until 
death put a period to it. If you press your hand to the right side, 
behind the fore-leg, you will feel the heart beating very strongly, 
between 100 and 130 a minute. 
Now, although I have never effected a cure where the disease was 
fairly begun, yet I think, by employing preventives, they have 
been the means of saving one or two. In going over all my stock 
with medicines, I observed two rather loose, but gave them the same 
treatment as the rest; but, while it had very little apparent effect 
on the greatest portion of them, farther than diminishing their 
appetites for half a day, these two became very ill in a few hours, 
and one of them was so very weak, that it was unable to stand up 
or to eat any thing for a week, and was fed solely on linseed-tea 
and gruel, put over his throat, when he got stronger and ate, for 
six weeks, about as much as two would require, when he relapsed, 
took the disease, and died. The other was not so ill; he always 
kept eating a little, but got very much tucked up; but, as I nursed 
him with three bottles of linseed-tea a day, with sliced turnips and 
hay, he quite recovered, and is still doing well 
Now, it may perhaps be of importance to any person who may 
be visited by this unwelcome stranger, to know what medicines to 
give for prevention; and I may mention that, after taking half-a- 
gallon of blood from cattle more than a year old, I gave, on the 
morning after on an empty stomach, 1 lb. Epsom salts, 1 oz. ginger, 
1 oz. nitre, 1£ drachm tartarized antimony, and 1 oz. salt of tartar, 
which can all be got from any respectable druggist ; after mixing 
well together, to be given in chopin thin gruel, with £lb. treacle, 
which will be found, in almost every case, to operate in two hours. 
In frosty weather they require to be kept in a warm place, being 
plentifully supplied with lukewarm water after the medicine, and 
then only a little straw for the rest of the day. Young beasts, under 
a year old, will not stand quite half the former dose — >say 5 oz. 
salts, 2 drachms ginger, 3 ditto nitre, £ ditto tartarized antimony, 
and 2 ditto salt of tartar. I would advise every man whose stock 
is afflicted with the epidemic to lose no time in thus treating every 
beast of the cattle kind about his place. I can guarantee it will not 
hurt them, but, on the contrary, it will repay all his outlay, which 
is about Is. per head, and all his trouble in the fresh growth it will 
put into his stock. Should the disease still linger about the place, 
I would recommend a strict observation, and, whenever an animal 
is suspected of having it, remove it from the rest as soon and as 
far as possible, and keeping it separate a day or two will shew 
whether it is the epidemic or not. One test I have never found to 
