REMARKS ON SOUTHERN CATTLE FEVER. 
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fever in these records, there could be no doubt that it was hem¬ 
orrhagic malarial fever, as the history of the case gave ample 
evidence. It should be remarked that down there “ yellow 
chills ” is a common name for the affection even at this date. 
While there I learned that the majority of the physicians 
with whom I conversed on the subject depended on calomel and 
quinine as their remedial agents, and I determined to apply the 
same treatment, as far as applicable, to Southern cattle fever in 
the future. 
During the following seasons my success was not what I had 
expected, but still I was not entirely discouraged as I knew the 
mortality in the human disease often exceeded twenty-five per 
cent. I concluded that I was giving quinine in too small doses; 
consequently, I laid in a supply of quinine at wholesale prices, 
and gave it in wholesale doses, and my success became more 
marked, and now, after years of trial, I am satisfied that quinine 
is the proper antidote when properly administered and when 
given to the animal before dissolution has set in. 
Although we are called to treat many hopeless cases of the 
disease, it by no means follows that all acute cases are hopeless. 
In many instances, we are not called to treat ordinary sporadic 
diseases till they are both helpless and hopeless. 
The progress of the disease is so rapid that the case is often 
hopeless when the animal is discovered to be ill, but fortunately, 
all acute cases do not become hopeless so rapidly. 
I will simply outline my course of treatment in this commu¬ 
nication, as I will go fully into the details of it in the discussion 
which will follow. 
I first secure a comfortable stall with desirable surroundings 
(I never leave an affected animal on pasture if it is to be treated). 
I then administer a maximum dose of calomel, and in some 
cases combine other purgatives with it. I then prescribe extra 
large doses of sulphate of quinine, every three or four hours, till 
there is a marked fall in the temperature, or (if the animal is 
where I cannot see it frequently to take the temperature) until 
the urine becomes markedly more natural in color. I then 
