6S2 CARBON SUGGESTED AS A REMEDY FOR MURRAIN, &C. 
20 th . — The draught given the preceding day had a most desi- 
rable effect, the animal appearing in every respect much better. 
At night a sedative ball was given, and ordered to be repeated 
every four hours. 
21 st . — He does not appear so well after the sedatives : let them 
be discontinued, and give him gtt. x more of ol. croton, tiglii. 
22 d . — Since yesterday he has much improved ; eats a little hay. 
The haw is not so much protruded, and he appears better in every 
respect. Give febrifuge medicine in his gruel twice a-day. 
Sufficient to say that, from this time to the end of the month, he 
has continued improving, and is now perfectly restored to his usual 
state of health. 
With regard to the above treatment, I beg more particularly 
to direct attention to the great improvement observed on each 
occasion after the administration of the croton oil. 
CARBON SUGGESTED AS A REMEDY FOR 
MURRAIN, &c. 
By T. Parkin, M.R.C.S . , London, 8$c. $c. 
The prevalence of a severe murrain among cattle induces me 
to address you on the present occasion, with the view of pointing 
out a remedy that, I have reason to believe, may be found useful, 
and, if resorted to in time, likely to prevent its present fatal result. 
That remedy is, CARBON, in its gaseous and other forms. 
My reason for believing that this remedy will be beneficial is, 
simply because I infer that the cause productive of the epidemic 
among the cattle is the same as that which has produced its co- 
temporary among men, — the epidemic cholera. Now it has been 
my endeavour to shew, in the work which I have the pleasure to for- 
ward, that carbonic acid gas is an unfailing remedy for this modern 
scourge ; with what success I must leave you, Messrs. Editors, 
and others, to determine. We will, however, presume that my 
deductions in this respect are wrong, and that the murrain amongst 
the cattle is not the product of the same cause as the epidemic 
cholera. But then we must infer that the disease is caused by 
some deleterious agent extricated from the soil ; and, as we know of 
only one common to all latitudes, and capable of producing disease 
under every variety of circumstance, viz. that designated malaria, 
we ought, it would seem, then to conclude that to this particular 
poison must be attributed the effects now alluded to. Granting 
