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THE CATTLE EPIDEMIC. 
which, indeed, all classes of the community are deeply interested) 
you will, perhaps, admit a paper on the subject into your valuable 
periodical, The VETERINARIAN, from one who has had such ample 
experience of the disorder for the last two or three years. 
The Symptoms of the epidemic, or, as it is more properly called, 
pleuro-pnenmonia , are not always the same, but vary according 
to the age, constitution, and condition of the animal attacked ; and 
consequently the treatment must be diversified. I have had to 
attend some cases that have been given up by other practitioners, 
and have in several such instances been successful in restoring the 
animal to health and soundness. Indeed, in a very great number 
of cases to which I have been called on the first appearance of the 
disease, 1 have succeeded in saving seven out of nine ; and out of 
the eight last cases I have had to attend, only one has died, the 
others having perfectly recovered. 
In almost every case I find it necessary to bleed and give aperi- 
ent medicine, with the exception of a few cases wherein the pulse 
is greatly depressed : it is then necessary to promote circulation 
by stimulants, &c. 
As it would be impossible to give a regular and uniform mode of 
treatment where the same disorder assumes so many different 
forms of attack, I propose giving two cases, narrating the symp- 
toms attending each, with the mode of treatment in each adopted. 
Case I. 
On the 7th February, 1845, Mr. Thomas Dobson, of Pickering, 
farmer, had two milch-cows attacked with pleuro-pneumonia. He 
sent for his “ farrier,” who attended them until one of them died, 
and the other was given up by him to die. He said, there was 
no chance of her recovery, as one of her lungs was gone. 
Mr. Dobson then sent for me. I attended, and found the cow 
standing, having her respiration very quick and laborious, and giv- 
ing a sort of grunt, repeatedly, as she respired. Pulse about 90. I 
was told, she had not eaten any thing for several days, but had been 
supported by a little gruel, which had been given her with a horn. 
After having examined her minutely, I found the s}^mptoms much 
the same as I had met with in similar cases, which I had treated 
successfully, and therefore I told Mr. Dobson that I had great hopes 
of her recovery, through proper treatment. I bled her freely (the 
blood proving very aqueous), and administered such medicines as 
I had been in the habit of using in similar cases. Gradually she 
recovered, and was in a few weeks perfectly cured. Then she was 
turned out to grass, well fed through the summer, and sold the 
latter part of the year to a butcher. 
