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INFLAMMATORY FEVER IN CATTLE. 
Account of an acute Entero-peritonitis, which prevailed 
among Cattle in many Communes of the Department 
of the Nicore , during the Years 1826 and 1827. By 
MM. Taiche and Boizet. 
THIS disease was most frequent during the summer of 1826, and 
at the commencement of the autumn of 1827 : it principally 
attacked animals from four to six years old, who were strong and 
in good condition. Some had been turned into the meadows to 
fatten, and others employed in agricultural work, and probably 
kept without food during the whole of a sultry day, and turned 
loose into the pasture at night. Cows, calves, and aged oxen, were 
usually exempt. 
Symptoms. —Dulness ; loss of appetite ; those who were at 
grass quitting their companions, and hiding themselves under the 
hedges; those who were at work becoming deaf to the voice of 
the driver, and insensible to the goad. Rumination soon ceased ; 
general lassitude came on, with peculiar weakness of the hind 
limbs—and staggering. The respiration was quickened; the 
temperature of the skin heightened, principally towards the 
withers and chest; the loins and back were tender, and the beast 
shrunk from the least pressure. The head was protruded; the 
ears and horns, from the base to the point, hot; the conjunctiva 
injected, with considerable secretion of tears; the muzzle hot and 
dry ; the mouth hot; the tongue enlarged : the pulse from 70 to 
80. The feces hard, and covered with a glairy mucus, and that 
mucus, when the disease had attained its full intensity, streaked 
with blood. The urine thick, oily, brown, and with a strong and 
penetrating odour. The disease was most rapid in its progress ; 
and if the animal was neglected beyond the first day, it was irre¬ 
vocably lost. The usual duration of the disease was from three to 
seven days, but some suddenly dropped and died. 
If early attacked, the disease was easily arrested in its progress; 
but it was necessary to persevere in the use of remedial means. 
Post-mortem appearances .—Abdomen : slight inflation of the 
bowels ; three or four buckets of bloody serous fluid effused. Pe¬ 
ritoneum universally inflamed, with numerous spots of ecchymosis. 
