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and covering the bodies with quick-lime. It may be stamped out only 
b^be-free' use of the poll-axe, and the thorough disinfection by the 
most severe means of the premises, utensils and attendants. It is ono 
of those cases where heroic treatment is of supreme value. 
Bow to Enow It. 
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The symptom most easily known in the early stage is an increased tern* 
perature of the body. If a clinical thermometer be introduced into the 
rectum of a beast in an infected district, and an abnormal heat is ascer- 
tained, it is safe to suspect the disease ; therefore send for a veterinarian 
at once. Next a slight cough will show itself ; the hair will be erected 
along the back ; there may be shivering and always tenderness of the 
back when pinched ; the breathing and pulse is accelerated ; the bowels 
are costive, rumination is irregular. The urine is scanty and high col-* 
ered, the appetite fails, the milk-flow is diminished, the nose will be alter' 
nately moist and dry. The horns and other extremities will be alternately 
hot and cold. In the field, the sick animals will separate from the herd. 
All the symptoms become more and more apparent until the animal 
remains in a fixed posture, the head rigidly extended, the mouth open, at 
every inspiration a moan, until at length the animal succumbs, a loath- 
eoine and noxious mass of contagion. 
What to Bo. 
A resort to remedies should not be had unless the animals are taken 
early in hand, and can be isolated in a building far from any herd. It 
will not pay except in the case of thorough-bred or otherwise valuable 
6tock. This is especially the case in the West, if that section should be 
unfortunate enough to import the disease. Prof. Gamgee, who made an 
elaborate report for the Government in 1871, strongly and wisely con- 
demns purgatives and bleeding, but believes the disease may be checked, 
if taken in time, by isolating the whole herd, and depending on active 
internal astringents. He advises daily doses of sulphate of iron, one-half 
to one drachm to the bullock, mixed with an equal weight of linseed and 
coriander seeds, given in bran to disguise it ; this he has found to miti- 
gate the cough, followed by the disappearance of the disease. 
In the second stage of the disease, he advises light but nutritious food# 
Copious warm water injections, and the following stimulant: 
Ko. ao. 
% Oz. carbonate of ammonia, 
1 Qt. llnieed oil 
