Nebraska advertiser., 1860-07-05

The following is the official diagnosis,
which accompanies the official documents
Just printed by order Of the Massachu-
sets Legislature
Dide 8osssAThe symptoms Of the
disease called Piuro- Pneumonia, describ-
ad by English hors, do not essentially
differ from the ease ID this country.
Amont the gnss or symptoms are
these If the animals are at pasture at
the commencement of the disease, they
will be found, early in the morning
separate from the herd, with arched
backs, coats staring and refusing to eat;
while, as the day advances they will join
the rest and appear to be in usual health.
A sligh 5at husky cough will be occa-
sionally recognized, and at times the
breathing win be increased, as if the
animal had made sone extra exertion (;
and "a mich cows there will also be a
diminished amount Of milk.
AS the disease progresses, the cough
becomes more frequent and husky the
respiration is humid the pulse increased,
and somewhat, oppressed the appetite
diminished; Illumination suspended; bowels
c~onstipated; surface of the body and
limbs cold; the skin rigid; The animal,
on pressure upon the spine, finches and
is unable to bear pressure or percussion
on the sides of the chest OF costal regions
In more advanced stages, the respira-
ton IS difficult, labored, and painful. The
animal frequently hes down and, when
standing, the head is protruded, the mouth
covered with trothy saliva, the muzze
cold, and the aspect spiritless and haggard.
On striking or percussing the affected
side, a dull or dead sound is usually eli
cited to a greater or less extent but this
will depend upon the extent 10 which the
lung has become consolidated, and the
presence or absence of fluid in the cavity
of the chest. On applying the ears to
the sides of the chest, one or the other
is found to be affected; sometimes, tho
rarely, both are impli ,ated. When APP
piled in the region Of the diseased part,
the ear fails 10 perceive the low, rushing
murmur of healthy lungs, and detects a
cripitating sound or rattle, which, as the
advances toward the unfavorable
termination, becomes duller, and at last
is altogether ~inaudible.
The following antidote for the cattle
.distemper is furnished by the NJ Y.
Burn tar freely in the barn or shed
two or three times in a day, and let the
inhale it, but not too close let
hem lap freely of salt every other day.;
dissolve chloride of potassa In water,
wash their n~ostrils and mouth and rub
hem all over with a coarse brush wet in
he same sprinkle chloride of lime in
md about the stables give the cattle a
iew onions if they can be procured, and
,lenty Of sound vegetables and fresh
yrass and water: no hay, if it can be
Physicians assert hat the disease is one
If exhaustion. and analogous to the ty-
ohoid pneumonia, which occasionally pre-
rails ~epidemically among the human race
This disease, so prevalent in Massa-
ihusetts, is said to have appeared in Bucks
Pa. Within a shoFttime Charles
4ieheners a farmer Of Bristol township,
os nearly all of his valuable herd Of
,oyVs, of complaint resembling very much
he dread cattle disease. The Governor
# Vermont, in view of its appearance
n that State, is about TO call an extra
of the LEGISLATURE.