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CHLOROFORM AS A LINIMENT IN SCALDS. 
travelled through Madison and the adjacent counties of this 
State, kindly called to see us a few days since, to confirm 
the painful intelligence of the destruction, in those localities, 
of almost countless numbers of cattle and deer, from the 
prevalence of a most singular and unaccountable disease. 
The earliest settlers of the country have never witnessed 
anything of the kind before. In many places the woods are 
thickly strewed with the dead carcases of both cattle and 
deer, presenting a most melancholy scene. The mode of 
attack, and the symptoms, are both singular and threatening. 
Stiffness seizes the body and limbs of the animal, making it 
walk as if badly foundered. The mouth discharges a large 
quantity of white froth, after which the tongue becomes 
highly inflamed, swells, and then turns black, when death 
immediately ensues. The same disease prevails throughout 
the State, as also in the lower counties of Georgia, where it 
is attributed to rust, which exists very generally upon vege- 
tation. 
To the above we may add the following, on the same 
subject, from the last Troupville (Ga.) 4 Watchman/ As it 
contains a remedy for this strange disease, it will doubtless 
be very acceptable to our readers : 
The disease, a species of lampas , which has destroyed the 
deer, and large numbers of cattle in portions of East Florida, 
during the present season, is now known to prevail to a con- 
siderable extent in Lowndes and some of the neighbouring 
counties. Mr. Reddin Wooten, a practical farmer of this 
county, sends us the following prescription, which he has 
used successfully, and considers infallible : 
C£ Copperas and water, a strong decoction, half a gallon ; 
to which add half a pint of spirits of turpentine. Use as a 
mouth-wash, once a day for two days, and drench with one 
pint of salt and water .’ 5 — New York Spirit of the Times . 
CHLOROFORM AS A LINIMENT IN SCALDS, &e. 
It may not be altogether new to employ chloroform as an 
external application to burns, scalds, &c. ; but, at the same 
time, it may be advantageous to record such instances as 
seem to have been benefited by its use. The following 
case, communicated by M. Bargiacchi, appears a conclusive 
evidence of its efficacy in these circumstances : — A young 
man of vigorous constitution, and 22 years of age, fell into a 
cauldron of boiling water, by which the inferior extremities 
