CATTLE DISEASE IN CHINA. 
51 
Date. 
Amonnt of milk yielded. 
* 
Remarks. 
Morning. 
Evening. 
1st day, being the day 
preceding that on 
which the cow was 
manifestly ill . 
2nd day . 
6^ bottles 
6 „ 
4^ bottles 
H „ 
Her food was not finished at night. 
3rd „ . 
5 „ 
2 i „ 
Feeling badly; refused altogether 
at night. 
Has eaten very little. 
4tli „ . 
If „ 
1 „ 
5th „ . ... 
Secretion arrested 
Refuses altogether to feed. Diar- 
6th „ . 
rhoea commenced. 
Worse in every way. 
Died. 
7th ,, . 
Loss of appetite and cessation of rumination are, generally 
speaking, the first symptoms which attract attention. In 
the advanced stages of the disease the animal refuses food 
absolutely. I have made as yet no thermometrical obser¬ 
vations, but have inferred a heightened temperature from the 
accelerated pulse (varying between 70 and 90 according to 
my own observations) and from the eagerness with which 
animals in the earlier stages seek to cool their bodies in water 
when opportunity permits. There is more or less suffering 
from thirst, which in the advanced stages is often excessive. 
Depression of vital energy is shown by the listless move¬ 
ments, the drooping ears, the low carriage of the head, and 
by the lowered temperature of the extremities; the drooping 
ears give the animal suffering from the disease a very cha¬ 
racteristic appearance. The discharge from the nostrils varies 
greatly both in quantity and quality, in some cases appearing 
simply as an increase of the natural secretion, in others being 
purulent, viscid and blood-stained. In the bull belonging 
to Mr. Keele, which recovered, it was very profuse, hanging 
from the muzzle in large tenacious masses of a greenish- 
yellow colour. Where this symptom has been absent the 
mucous lining after death shows in a less degree the cha¬ 
racteristic morbid changes, but I have never seen the mem¬ 
brane free from disease. 
( To be continued .) 
