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windows, etc., kept them open, and the result was, we did not have in 
the next three days, as many fresh cases as in twenty-four hours 
previously; after that, thanks to belladonna and good ventilation cases 
became fewer, milder in character and at length ceased ; beside this 
treatment, counter irritation or an attempt at it was tried, principally 
with mustard, but the article was poor and did not work. In my private 
practice I do not put much faith in external applications, except hot 
water when first attacked; there is no objection to them, but be sure of 
your article, and I will here add be sure of your purgatives ; the aloes 
JBarbadces, must be good and used in free doses, give salts, if safe to 
assist its action, and use injections freely. 
Eight days after my first visit and at my earnest appeal repeated 
day by day, two stables were built across the street into which 
about ninety animals, those that had not been attacked as yet, were 
placed, but three or four new mild cases occurred in these after 
removal, as the worst was then over, even under the disadvantages 
under which I had to work, of stables, weather and animals continuing 
to work in rain, snow, etc. 
Results as far as known at last visit, between eighty and ninety 
animals “ unattached .” There had been from first to last, as near as I 
could make out, one hundred and forty-seven cases, with seventy-seven 
deaths from different causes ; over sixty of the remaining seventy 
cases doing well and likely to recover, and taking their exercise; in 
fact, a number of them at work doing one trip a day. 
Among the deaths are to be included all that occurred prior to 
any one being called in; the cases hopeless before treatment adopted; 
deaths in three cases that relapsed from washing the patients and giv¬ 
ing a chill, when previously they had been progressing nicely; three 
cases (two of colic) that were suffocated by the fluid medicine given 
to them being poured down trachea, while struggling. 
These facts I think, speak well for the prophylactic treatment by 
Belladonna, that I have always so earnestly advocated since I first 
adopted it years ago ; I consider the results remarkably good, under 
the disheartening circumstances that surrounded me, and which could 
have been and would have been much better, as I know by experience, 
under different conditions, if the animals could have stopped their 
work and been removed to a healthy locality, when I first suggested it, 
and put under the same treatment we did adopt. But while the offi¬ 
cials of the company were willing to do all in their power, they were 
powerless in some points; the public had to be accommodated at what¬ 
ever sacrifice to the company, and the latter responded nobly. 
I had a great deal of trouble to carry on the preventive treatment. 
I was much opposed by some on the score it would do no good (I think 
the results showed differently), and by others that belladonna would 
