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woollen clothing. The clothes are kept on for a quarter of an hour or 
twenty minutes after the skin gets well warmed, which is generally 
within half an hour after the application. This effected the clothes 
are removed, the patient well hand-rubbed and then wrapped up in 
a dry rug. Previous to the packing (which, the strength of the 
animal allowing, I order at intervals of three days for three times) 
I give in water by the mouth 3 oz. sulphite of soda, or 2 drs. 
Condy’s disinfecting fluid. I have not had an opportunity of trying 
carbolic acid in this complaint, but I believe, from what is said of 
it, that it wmuld he a very suitable medicine to give at this time. 
The bowels and kidneys I act upon by small doses of salts and 
nitre given daily. I give sedatives to keep the accompanying fever 
in check, and of these have used digitalis and camphor, tartar 
emetic and nitre, calomel and opium, liquor acetate of ammonia, 
hydrocyanic acid, hemlock, aconite, &c. Of all these I prefer 
aconite, and give of Fleming’s tincture doses not exceeding ten drops 
for a cow every three hours, reducing the frequency when circum¬ 
stances permit. In all cases I irritate the sides of the chest, and 
for this purpose have used setons, blisters, and stimulating embro¬ 
cations. A blister of bin-iodide of mercury I think answers as well 
as any. When the disease is somewhat subdued, or when weakness 
supervenes, stimulants and tonics are necessary. Of the former I 
have given aromatic spirits of ammonia, nitrous ether, tincture of 
cayenne, whisky toddy, &c. ; sulphuric acid, sulphate of iron, and 
arsenic, I have used for the latter. Easily digested food should 
only be allowed for some time after the patient begins to eat. 
During the disease sick animals should be fed on linseed meal 
gruel prepared with milk, and have hay tea, or, if they refuse that, 
water to drink. 
So much for treatment; now a word as to prevention, and then 
I have done. Having removed the sick from among the healthy as 
soon as possible, get the latter in winter put outside, and the byres 
well fumigated with chloride of lime, or other disinfectant, daily for 
several days in succession, paying particular attention to the stalls 
of those removed. I have tried Prof. Gamgee’s sulphate of iron 
and coriander seed powders for the unaffected, with, I thought, good 
results. I think all cattle which are in good condition should, 
with the owner’s consent, be slaughtered on the premises where 
they are fed, as soon as the slightest symptoms of the disease are 
observed. Not a few of them eat and ruminate for a day or two 
after they are known to be affected. If these were killed when in 
that stage their carcases might be eaten without any bad effects. I 
do not believe any more danger would arise from eating such, 
than there would from eating an animal whose leg had been 
broken, and a day or two elapsed before a butcher was got to kill 
it. When I say this I do not mean the disposing of such carcases 
should in any case be left to the discretion of interested parties. 
It should only be permitted under the authority of competent in¬ 
spectors appointed by Government, a couple of whom would, I 
believe, serve the whole district our association represents. The 
