INFLAMMATORY FEVER IN CATTLE. 
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served; in a few cases, however, not until the seventh or eighth 
day: and this course of treatment was persisted in until the dis¬ 
ease was evidently abated. 
Preventive Treatment. —The same as that employed on the 
diseased animals, except that the bleeding was more moderate# 
The sick were immediately separated from the others: change of 
situation seemed to be beneficial. Two droves of oxen were sent 
to Paris, one of them already affected, and all arrived in apparent 
health. , . . . 
Causes. —The cattle being too long kept in low and watery 
meadows, abounding with ranunculuses, rushes, and other plants 
more or less acrid and irritating; and while in the upland pastuie, 
the plants, less nutritive, were dried and withered by the scorch- 
in 0, sun, and rendered highly stimulating ; the dunking of stand¬ 
ing and muddy water m the marshes, and the little precaution in 
getting rid of the carcases of those which had perished. 
Contagion. —This can only exist in the third stage of the disease, 
when gangrenous spots are formed on the viscera, and death is in¬ 
evitable. Even then contact is necessary; for when the healthy and 
the diseased were separated only by a hedge, the malady was not 
communicated. . n4 .. , 
Recapitulation.— These herds consisted of 218 oxen: 24 died 
before Messrs. T. and B. were consulted. Of the 194 which re¬ 
mained, 16 underwent the disease, of which 3 died; and 178 
were subjected to the preventive treatment, and escaped. 
Remarks by the Editor of the Recueil de Med. Vet. 
At the commencement of September 182/, we were consulted 
respecting a disease much resembling this, with some additional 
symptoms. Greater heaving of the flanks; the head extended; 
freouent cough, and looking at the leftside; acceleration of the 
pulse, and a peculiar rattling sound attending each inspiration, 
and particularly to be heard when the ear was applied to the left 
side of the chest. . 
The causes of this disease appeared to be similar to those de¬ 
scribed in the above memoir. 
The only difference of treatment w r as the employment of de¬ 
mulcent electuaries, and gentle incisives. 
No post-mortem examination occurred. 
Of nineteen oxen, three were dead before the arrival of the Edi¬ 
tor; the remaining sixteen were cured. 
The above are varieties of inflammatory fever, which, under the 
names of Blood, Black-cpiarter, Black-leg, Joint felon, Quartci 
Evil, 8cc. &c. destroy so many of our cattle and sheep. We shall 
enter fully into the consideration of this disease shortly. Ed. 
