First and Second Reports of the Special Committee Appointed by the Executive Board of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, on the Statistics, Pathology and Treatment of the Epizootic Disease Known as the Rinderpest; (In Behalf of the Committee, A. B. Con (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ... October, 1711, and received the rest on the spot from persons of integrity and credit. His account bears the stamp of his extensive skill and repute as a doctor of medicine. We shall give it quite at length: "Almost all the sick cattle refused every kind of food and drink; they hung their heads, had shiverings in their skin and limbs, they breathed with difficulty, and their expiration in particular was attended with a sort of rattling noise; they were so feeble that they could scarcely go or stand upon their legs. Some few of them eat a little and drank very much, others had fluxes of excrements variously colored, of an offensive smell, and frequently tinged with blood; many of them had their heads and their bellies swelled in such a manner, that in clapping them with the hand on the paunches, or along the vertebrae of the loins, they sounded like a dry bladder when full blown. In some the urine was very turbid, in others of a bright flame color. In comparing the pulses of the sound cattle with those of the diseased, he found the latter to be quicker and weaker. There was but little heat perceivable by the touch in any of them; their tongues were soft and moist, but their breath was exceedingly offensive. Besides these particulars, he was informed by those who attended the sick cattle, and by other persons worthy of credit, that in some of the beasts they had observed crude tumours in several parts of the body, as also watery pustules, and disorderly motions of the head, with dry, black and fissured tongues; that in others there were tumours which came to maturation, with putrid matter issuing from the mouth and nostrils, worms in the faeces and in the eyes, bloody sweats and shedding of hair." The pathological description follows: "In comparing the flesh...