850 ON GANGRENOUS PERIPNE.UMONY IN CATTl.E. 
and thus subdue the pulmonary inflammation? Such are some 
of the pathological considerations which may explain a medicine 
astonishing in its effects, which I regard as the very basis of 
my treatment, and which I have seen, again and again, followed 
with success. This medicine may be modified in various ways, 
if its agency should be tested on other animals afflicted with 
similar diseases. 
6. Drinks obtained from the bitter and aromatic plants should 
be given two or three times in the day, if the disease should be 
attended by much debility. Of the bitter plants, gentian, patience 
and burdock will be preferred—and of the aromatics, the golden 
rod, wild thyme, cultivated ditto, angelica, sage, lovage, &c. will 
probably be chosen. An infusion can easily be made of these 
different ingredients well bruised. 
7. A warm bran poultice should be continually kept on the 
loins. 
8. The litter should be plentiful and dry—the animal fed from 
the hand—the house in which he is placed should be well 
ventilated, yet warm, and no current of air should be suffered to 
fall on him. 
9. Morning and night, the vapour of vinegar and juniper 
should be plentifully diffused through the whole of the place. 
The chloride of lime would, probably, be a more powerful disin¬ 
fectant. 
Preventive Measures^ the Disease not having yet appeared on 
the Premises. —1. The drinks and other things as recommended 
for sick animals. 
2. The use of the sternutatory vinegar, and of the powder, 
once every day. 
3. The withholding of half of the usual quantity of food. 
4. The keeping those animals from work that appear to be 
predisposed to take on the disease. 
This plan should be scrupulously adhered to for at least eight 
or ten days, and, afterwards, had occasional recourse to during 
the prevalence of the epizootic. 
Means to prevent the Propagation of the Disease. —1. To 
separate as much as possible the sound animals from the diseased, 
and to appoint different persons to attend to the management of 
each. 
2. To abstain from the sale or purchase of cattle. 
3. To avoid all contact with those who have diseased animals. 
4. To bury those that die, many incisions having been pre¬ 
viously made into the skin and flesh, at a considerable distance 
from the house and stables, and as deeply as circumstances will 
admit. 
