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? Paging, an d then astringents. He deprecated the use 
°: diuretics; and esteemed it bad practice to stimulate a part 
already too much excited. 
a -^ r : ^ 00 ^ wln referred to a similar disease among deer, and 
described the difficulty he had in drenching some of the Wappiti 
It was inquired, whether, in inflammatory fever, any viscus 
seemed to be primarily or principally affected. It was replied, 
that all seemed to share alike in the inflammatory action • 
although it was added by Mr. Easton, that, on examining: the 
brains of some cattle that had died of the blood, he found 
neither inflammation of the membranes, or congestion of the 
vessels. 
Mr. Field enquired, whether it could be considered as epi¬ 
demic. r 
Mr. Youatt answered, that it clearly could not. It depended 
on certain causes principally or entirely connected with the food, 
and the plethoric habit of the animal. Neither was it con¬ 
tagious ; but the carcase speedily became putrid, and should be 
removed. 
It was asked, whether beasts in the salt marshes were subject 
to this disease. J 
Mr. Easton replied, that, most certainly, they were not exempt; 
but they were not more exposed to it than in other pasturage too 
luxuriant. 
Messrs. Field and Henderson, however, remarked, that horses 
at the salt marshes were peculiarly subject to pneumonia; and 
that the causes which produce general inflammatory action in 
cattle, produced in the horse a local affection. The lungs, the 
feet, and the eyes of the horse, were too often exposed to un¬ 
natural and injurious stimuli, and therefore predisposed to take 
on inflammatory action. 
Mr. Field likewise observed, that there was not so much dissi¬ 
milarity been the diseases of the horse and of cattle as had been 
imagined. In some cases of violent chest affection, the powers 
of the constitution were rapidly exhausted. A rowel, instead of 
stimulating the part to which it was applied, was occasionally 
inert, and the primary affection speedily ran on to gangrene. A 
horse that died from over-exertion in hunting presented, on dis¬ 
section, many of the morbid appearances that accompanied in¬ 
flammatory fever in cattle. In the malignant form of farcy, the 
progress of decomposition was very rapid. 
The discussion then proceeded to the treatment of inflamma¬ 
tory fever. Mr. Easton differed from Mr. Youatt as to the doses. 
He gave twelve drachms of aloes to an ox, and eight to a milch 
