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different characters; the invasion may last only two days 
or may extend to seven or eight, but whether of long or short 
duration, when once it deviates from its ordinary course it 
is sure to be violent. In this case the symptoms of its out¬ 
break are raised to the highest point of intensity ; the fever, 
anxiety, the pain in the loins, in the limbs, and the abdo¬ 
minal region, the dyspnoea, fetor of the breath, &c., are 
equally violent; the weakness is extreme, the mucous mem¬ 
branes are pale, and the wool comes off. These symptoms 
increase after the invasion ; the heat of the body is intense, the 
head is held low, rumination suspended, the mouth is hot and 
dry, and the thirst is ardent, but the act of drinking is not im¬ 
peded ; the action of the heart is violent and quick. From 
the first there is a slimy froth from the mouth and an abundant 
discharge from the nostrils, which is often mixed with blood 
and of an insupportable odour. Sometimes the nostrils are 
stopped up with secretion, which more or less impedes 
the respiration ; a cough supervenes, which is distressing to 
the animal. The e} r es are inflamed and swollen, weeping 
and cloudy, and retracted within the sockets. The eyelids are 
tumefied and glued together; they sometimes suppurate and 
become disorganized. The sight is at times lost; the lips, 
the ears, and the whole head and legs, become excessively 
tumefied ; all the parts affected are very painful. The pustules 
are united together, and form large sores on the nose and the ar¬ 
ticulations, and sometimes cause caries of the bones and anchy¬ 
losis of the joints. In some cases the inflammation of the 
mucous membranes is so violent that the eruption is arrested. 
In other cases the inflammation is more confined to the skin, 
and is very intense and the eruption very considerable; re¬ 
action on the mucous membranes, and, consequently, secon¬ 
dary irritation, determine the same symptoms, and cause the 
same danger. Diminution of the pustules, reabsorption of the 
secretion, and sometimes diarrhoea, are the signs of speedy 
death. The animal falls and gives a few convulsive move¬ 
ments. The abdomen is distended and the body infiltrated ; 
at other times the animal dies in a lethargic state. 
The medical treatment, according to Gilbert, Tessier, and 
Girard, should be, not to arrest the progress of the malady, 
but to promote the eruption; to reduce the quantity of 
food; not to drench the patient, but to allow him plenty 
of tepid water, with some meal in it, with which some 
chloride of sodium (common salt) has been mixed; to put 
the animals in well-ventilated sheds, of even temperature; 
to avoid all exciting causes, purgatives and venesection, 
&c.. These are the simple means recommended. They 
