J97 
VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY, Jan. 7, L829. 
TV,IT. vnTTATT 1 -pad a caper on “the Inflammatory Fever of 
Cattle,” th^ substance of winch will he found at page 165 et seq. 
t!i« first turned on the 
this disease was designated ; and it ‘““^^JS^eilh- 
culturists, or even veterinary surgeons although res „ h 
bouring counties, 
much previous explanation, when speaKing 01 
“Mr Easton described that variety of it called the “ Blane.” 
Tt was characterized by great enlargement of the tongue and sub 
otinn nf the whole mouth, particularly along the under pail oi 
the touLeand in the neighbourhood of the framulum lingua*. 
The animal was speedily deshnyed, as n ", byaetua ^ 
'tot?llfthl jnd "mentioned “*‘d” 
"“/c ,sxTm«““y 
h,.m a 3 3 ..W lied at the end .1,1, and dipped 
'“S'' F ;,id described a similar .ffcdon of the tongue of the 
horse occasionally accompanying cynanche tonsillaris and ep 
demic catarrh, and readily removed by the free use of the lancet. 
Mr Youatt remarked, that there was a similar, and not untie 
qu Ini, affection of the tongue of the dog, and readily cured by 
th VTd 6 “n then wandered to Red-water, which Mr Hen¬ 
derson on the authority of Mr. Rawlings, described as debility 
of the ’vessels of the kidney, and best treated by spirit ot tuipen- 
tm yi,. Youatt, on the contraiy, traced it to some peculiarity as 
well is luxuriance of pasture. The cattle on some fields were 
rarelv free from it; while on others equally luxuuant t \ 
escaped. The cow was as subject to this complaint as t le ox. 
He recarded it as, primarily, inflammation ol the kidney, 
"hi St* « discharge h IW) TllfC7^3 J 
• over-distention and rupture of the vessels of the kulne) , 01 , 
it was debility, it was that produced by inflammation and coi - 
He recommended bleeding, if* there were the slig 1 os 
gestion. 
