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remedies of the diseases of domestic animals, by the duties which 
we owe to our country and to humanity. The products of agricul¬ 
ture and commerce are often lessened by a fatal epidemic, 
brought on by diseases which blast the character of animal pro¬ 
visions; and many poor families have been left to suffer all the 
evils of penury and famine by the death of a single horse, upon 
whose labour, of a cow upon whose milk, or of a hog upon whose 
flesh, they had relied exclusively for subsistence, all of whom, 
perhaps, perished by diseases that might have been cured. 
7th. By extending our knowledge of the causes and cure of 
the diseases of domestic animals, we may add greatly to the 
certainty and usefulness of the profession of medicine, as far as 
it relates to the human species. The organization of their 
bodies, the principle of animal life, and the manner in which the 
remote and proximate causes of disease produce their morbid 
effects, are the same as in the human body, and most of medi¬ 
cines produce in them and us nearly a similar operation. Their 
acute diseases are the same as ours. They are subject to epi¬ 
demics from an impure atmosphere as well as from contagions. 
Fevers, catarrhs, hemorrhage, dysentery, dropsy, scrofula, ver¬ 
tigo, madness, worms, stone, and apoplexy, affect horses, horned 
cattle, sheep, hogs, and dogs. The rheumatism, angina, and 
tetanus, affect horses. Cows are subject to diabetes. Cancers 
have been observed in dogs. Cats suffer and die from a disease 
which appears to be a form of bilious fever. Cutaneous erup¬ 
tions and sores are common to them all. In short, when we 
except the diseases which are the effects of certain trades and 
professions, of intemperance, of the operations of the mind, and 
of a peculiar function in the female body, there is scarcely a 
form of disease mentioned in our system of nosology, but what 
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is to be met with in domestic animals. 
PHRENITIS IN DEER. 
By Mr. F. Good, V.S., Wells. 
[We insert the following interesting account, by an old pupil, 
of the symptoms during life, and the post-mortem appearances, 
of an epidemic disease, which from time immemorial has occa¬ 
sionally appeared in our parks, and swept off thousands of deer. 
It is, we believe, the only detailed account of the malady on 
record. The character of the disease is plain enough,—it is 
inflammatory fever, with peculiar determination of blood to the 
