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AMONG CATTLE IN IRELAND IN 1842. 
air in its passage through the lungs, ami the animals, instead 
of throwing up flesh, continue thin, harsh in their coat, cough 
frequently, and barely live, without offering the slightest pros- 
pect of remuneration for their keep. Many, on recovering, thrive 
amazingly, although an examination of their lungs, by placing 
the ear over the sides, indicates that some parts of these organs 
are completely impervious to air, and are, consequently, useless 
for the purpose for which nature originally intended them. Were 
I a cattle-feeder, I should certainly object to retain for store-stock 
any that did not thrive immediately on recovery. 
Relapse . — Not unfrequently the animals make a temporary 
rally, thrive for a short time, get ill again, decline rapidly in 
flesh, heave laboriously at the flanks, and die, having the entire 
of their lungs in a most dreadful state of disease. In cases of 
relapse bleeding must not be had recourse to, excepting where 
the inflammatory attack is most markedly acute. Sometimes 
the animals recover the acute attack, but lapse into a state of 
pulmonary consumption, for which there is no cure. I should 
advise no person to retain on their farms any cattle having had 
a relapse. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they never re- 
munerate the grazier for their keep. 
It becomes a questipn, in a pecuniary point of view, what 
course of procedure is the most desirable for the grazier to fol- 
low ? I should say, when cattle in good condition shew the least 
symptoms of being attacked, dispose of them immediately, if 
possible, for they are certain to lose flesh under treatment, un- 
less under peculiarly favourable and very rare circumstances. 
Those that have had the disease severely, sell them as soon as 
they are at all fit for market ; and under no circumstance, at 
any of the approaching fairs, purchase from herds of cattle 
among which can be detected the existence of hoose or cough. 
ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
Bp Mr. J. M. Hales, Oswestry. 
As I know that you take a deep interest in all that relates to 
the agriculturist and the veterinary surgeon, I am induced to ad- 
dress you on the subject of that fatal malady, which, having 
made such havock among the cattle in some parts of Cheshire,, 
is now penetrating into Shropshire. 
On the 25th of August I was requested by Sir Rowland Hill 
to go to Ightfield, about twenty-five miles from my residence, to 
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