ON WOOD- EVIL OR MOOR-ILL. 
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so complex. This is the case particularly in the malady above- 
mentioned : for by whatever names it may be distinguished, or 
from whatever causes it may be said to spring, it will be found 
on examination to be but one disease, consisting in a derange- 
ment of one or more of the digestive organs. 
In this opinion most modern writers on cattle medicine agree : 
thus, in Mr. J. Lawrence’s Complete Cattle Keeper, Moor 111, 
or Wood 111 or Evil, are declared to be the same disease, having- 
two names. Pantas, or Fardel-bound, are also declared to be 
“ different names for the same complaint,” and described as 
arising from the same cause. In the work on Cattle, in the 
Library of Useful Knowledge, Wood Evil, Moor 111, and Pantas, 
are described under one head, and are declared to be but varie- 
ties of the same disease. 
These opinions are fully borne out by the practical experience 
of all who make this part of veterinary science their study, 
and by the various causes that produce this disease with its three 
inappropriate names. Bad food, or eating the leaves of 
the black willow produces it ; turning into luxuriant after- 
math is another frequent cause ; bad water is another ; cold, 
united with any one of these agents, occasions the same, and pro- 
duces that affection of the joints, which I believe is a rheumatic 
one, long known by the term Moor 111. 
But, it may be asked, cannot we have an affection of the joints, 
a stiffness of the limbs, without the organs of digestion be- 
ing materially affected ? Yes, we can ; but that is not Moor 
111, though Mr. Cox has described the symptoms to be no loss of 
appetite, no loss of milk, no affection of the pulse : but in Moor 
111 we have all three ; we have a loss of appetite, we have a loss 
of milk, if we have an affection of the pulse, and we have, in 
addition, obstinate constipation. 
It must be evident to every one, that an animal cannot eat bad 
food without the organs of digestion becoming impaired ; and 
if, in addition to this, they have not a sufficiency of food, the milk 
must be diminished. However, Mr. Cox states the fact — that bad 
and want of sufficient food causes Moor 111, and describes in the 
symptoms that “ neither the appetite nor the milk are affected.” 
The disease of which Mr. Cox gives the symptoms of, I con- 
sider to be a rheumatic affection of' the joints, the effects of cold , 
and the result of being turned out on a cold wet soil , and 'per- 
fectly distinct from Moor 111, 
Having now, I think, established the fact, that these names 
are given to one and the same disease, and having enumerated 
some of the causes that produce it, let us consider, in the next 
place, the symptoms and treatment. 
