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(iT’oinmuturattond ana Caw#. 
Ars veterinaria post medicinam secunda est.—V egetius. 
ON DYSENTERY IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. T. Meyer, Jun., V. S., Newcastle-under-Line, 
Staffordshire. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sirs, 
I consider it to be a duty that I owe to the public, to 
make known, through the medium of your interesting Journal, a 
dysenteric affection which has prevailed in this neighbourhood, 
and in the county of Chester, amongst horned cattle. 
During the months of August, September, and October last 
year, the English cholera prevailed amongst human beings, as 
an epidemic, to a greater extent, and with a greater fatality, than 
ever was known; at the same time horses and cattle, and parti¬ 
cularly the latter, were attacked with bowel affections, to a degree 
I had never before witnessed ; so that I consider (so far as 
atmospheric influence goes) we have been rather severely scourged 
with cholera; but heaven forbid that the whole island should be 
visited with the Asiatic cholera, with all the malignant features 
that have hitherto marked its progress. 
The first extreme cases which were brought under my notice 
occurred at a lay in Cheshire, where ten or twelve head of cattle 
had already died, and three or four others were considered hope¬ 
less. There were several other slighter cases, in which the ani¬ 
mals recovered when a proper treatment was adopted, and the 
diseased cattle were separated from the healthy ones. Aperients 
were then administered to the latter by way of prevention ; and a 
stop was put to its further progress. 
The disease was ushered in by a dull, anxious appearance; 
and the eyelids and dewlap were of a yellow tinge: in dairy 
cows there was a total suspension of the secretion of milk; a 
slight muco-purulent discharge from the nostrils w r as observed ; 
the appetite was indifferent, bowels costive, the dung of a dark 
colour, having portions of blood diffused through it; but the 
urine was not much affected. The pulse, for the first twenty- 
four or forty hours, when the disease came on more gra¬ 
dually, was not much affected; but afterwards it became fre- 
