INFLAMMATORY FEVER. 
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it has operated, give the following medicine every day until 
the symptoms disappear :— 
Peruvian bark . . ounce, 
Nitre, powdered . 2 drachms, 
Salt of steel . 1 drachm, 
Camphor, powdered . 1 scruple ; 
to be administered in a quart of warm oatmeal-gruel. 
CHAPTER IV. 
OF FEBRILE DISEASES. 
INFLAMMATORY FEYER, 
Symptoms. —When cattle are seized with inflammatory 
fever, they become abruptly stupid and inactive, hang 
down their heads, seem to move with difficulty, and refuse 
their ordinary food. Swellings become apparent on many 
parts of the body ; and if these are pressed by the finger, a 
crackling sound is heard to issue from them. In most in¬ 
stances the joints are particularly affected; at other times 
the shoulders, back, or belly are swollen. The disease is 
generally rapid in its progress, and often proves fatal : m 
which case the animal generally dies suddenly, and soon 
becomes putrescent. The disease sometimes terminates by a 
collection of matter on the joints, and hence its absurd names, 
ioint felon , quarter evil , blaeh quarter , blach leg , do. 
Causes. —-This malady was not known in Britain until 
about ninety years ago, at which period it carried off a 
fifth or even a fourth of the cattle between the first and 
third year of age; it, however, seldom or never attacked those 
