AT THE LONDON FARMERS* CLUB. 699 
will flourish much more than they do under the present imperfect 
mode of management. 
Mr. Tho. Turner, of Croydon. — Mr. Cherry has stated that he 
conceives pleuro-pneumonia to be a fever of a low typhoid character. 
I think he is right in that view ; and I think that, when you all 
attend more to the comfort of your animals in the manner recom- 
mended by him, you will find your account in it. Supposing he 
is right in thinking that these animals are all struck with a low 
typhoid form of fever, then the depletive remedy is, of course, 
always inadmissible. But I take it that many animals are struck, 
while in full health, with a different form of disease, attended with 
disturbed breathing; and in such cases I think you would be doing 
right by applying the depletive remedy. When animals exhibit 
premonitory symptoms of an inflammatory nature — for instance, 
sore throat — the depletive remedy, as a counter-irritant, would be 
of very essential service ; it might actually prevent the malady 
from travelling down from the throat into the bronchia and the 
important structure of the lungs. I keep a little stock of my own, 
to which I attend myself. I watch the animals very closely ; and 
I am satisfied that there are premonitory symptoms which should 
be met by the attentive principal, and not by the meddling ser- 
vant; and when the attentive principal discovers that he has got 
an animal in that condition, he will call in the scientific man, 
instead of depending upon the herdsman, or upon the quack, or 
upon the nostrum that destroys; he will, in short, call in the aid 
of the first veterinary surgeon in the locality. Now I agree with 
Mr. Cherry that we have gone on too long breeding in-and-in, and 
I also agree with him that low damp soils and improper food tend 
to increase the mischief; but still I maintain that in some instances 
the disease, instead of being of a low, is of an inflammatory cha- 
racter, and it should then be met by the remedies usually resorted 
to in such cases; and, while you are adding to the comfort of 
animals, do not lose sight of ventilation. Give them, also, a right 
aspect ; do not let them have a north-easter, but let them have a 
dry atmosphere, the wind proceeding from the right quarter. I 
should only fatigue you by going more fully into the subject, but 
I cannot too strongly impress upon you the necessity of attending 
to the earliest symptoms of the disease. There are certain noises 
which animals make at its commencement, and it is then that judi- 
cious treatment is most valuable; it should then be left to the 
acumen of the scientific man to determine whether the animal 
should be medicined, or whether it should be left to the vis medi- 
catrix natures. In conclusion, I would observe that it is a matter 
of moment, when animals have been struck with disease, that they 
should be removed, if possible, to another locality, and placed in 
another situation. 
