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THE PRESENT. EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
calved, and dropped two hours afterwards. She died in twelve 
hours. All the other 186 recovered. 
14. The number in this neighbourhood, as near as I can ascer- 
tain, attacked by this disease was about 400 or upwards. Most 
of those which I did not attend, were treated by the owners 
through the instrumentality of Professor Sewell, who, it appears, 
first teaches the young veterinarian, in consideration of a certain 
fee, a profession by which he is to get an honourable livelihood 
from the agriculturist, and then instructs the agriculturist — gratis 
— how to cure his own stock without the assistance of the poor ve- 
terinarian, who has spent his time and money in the pursuit of 
this knowledge which would enable him to practise his profession 
creditably and honourably. I can enumerate 37 cows out of the 
remaining 213, that died under the complaint ; and probably 
there are many more. This affords a pretty specimen of the ad- 
vantage actually gained by the agriculturist from this gratuitous 
and unwarrantable interference. 
15. Much less in quantity, and in some totally suppressed ; 
very thin and poor in quality, and producing no butter, but a kind 
of cheesy curd. 
16. Young cows, and those in high condition, suffered most, 
and were most difficult to cure. 
17. I have not seen it in connexion with any other disease; 
but I have seen several cases where inflammation of the lungs 
has come on after the violence of the other symptoms was over. 
It yielded, however, to bleeding and physic. 
18. Nine out of ten of those I had the opportunity of seeing 
got into condition very rapidly afterwards. 
19. 1 have neither seen nor heard of its appearance in the same 
animal a second time ; but I have known that, when a cow has 
been considered quite well, she has been commonly neglected, 
and in the course of a week or two some latent effects of the 
former disease have again shewn themselves, but not very diffi- 
cult to get rid of. I should have stated that the pulse ranged from 
50 to 80, and for the first three days was strong, full, and bound- 
ing. During this time I abstracted about 41hs of blood, accord- 
ing to other circumstances, and that I have had no reason to 
repent of, but the contrary. I never bled after the third day, except 
quick and panting breathing came on, shewing the approach of 
pneumonia, which in severe cases was not unfrequent. 
I am, dear Sir, &c. 
P.S. — Just as I was going to seal up this account, the Fe- 
bruary number of The Veterinarian made its welcome ap- 
pearance : seeing in its index Mr. Wallis’s account of the same 
