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ON WOOD-EVIL AND MOOR-ILL. 
Symptoms. — Costiveness, loss of appetite and cud ; an op- 
pressed state of breathing, often accompanied by a peculiar 
grunting noise ; often a coldness of the extremities, succeeded 
by heat : in the earlier stages of the disease the pulse is not 
much affected ; afterwards it becomes quick and oppressed. To 
these symptoms there is sometimes added a stiffness of the limbs 
and crackling of the joints. 
The first thing to be done in the plan of treatment is to regu- 
late the bowels ; for this purpose a good smart dose of aloes in 
solution is the best, which, if it does not produce its effect, must 
be followed up by salts, repeated every six hours till they 
operate. 
It is not good practice to bleed unless there are symptoms of 
inflammation of the lungs, in which case it is proper, and will 
relieve the animal much ; but it requires to be done with caution. 
It will be proper to follow up the aperient medicine with fe- 
brifuge and alterative doses until the organs of digestion are 
restored to their proper tone, and any effects of cold that have 
been existing are carried off. The animal’s diet should be light, 
and consist of bran mashes, and oatmeal gruel sweetened with 
treacle. It will also be proper during the disease to take away 
and obviate all the causes of it, in order that the effects may 
cease. Here we may remark, that healthy cows should never be 
turned into luxuriant after-math without due caution. 
This disease, when taken in time and treated properly, rarely 
proves fatal ; but when once it gets a-head, it often defies our 
utmost endeavours. 
ON WOOD-EVIL AND MOOR-ILL. 
By Mr. Thomas Surginson, Appleby. 
In the last number of The Veterinarian, Mr. Cox has 
attempted to draw a distinction betwixt wood-evil and moor- 
ill, and to prove that they exist as separate diseases. Any such 
distinction appears to me an error of no small magnitude ; and 
being situated as it were in the very centre where these maladies 
so much prevail, and having met with hundreds of cases of it 
both on moors and in woody situations ; and having strictly 
marked its rise and progress throughout in different animals and 
places ; I think myself in some measure called upon to make 
a few remarks on the causes, symptoms, and medical treatment 
of it ; and to shew, that whether the disease occurs on the 
