Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-03-17

il is said that the lungs were expanded so as to
fill the entire chest, and the air-cels filled with
colorless mucous matter Of a most disagreea-
Bile odor In the animal slain this afternoon
both sides of the chest presented very similar
aspects, but Mr. Stoddard says that sometimes
one side is affected more than the other, and
that if it is the right side the disease is milder
than if it is the left. He also thinks that young
cattle stand better chance to recover than old
ones.
There is great excitement in the neighborhood
in consequence of this calamity. 1t is obvious
that measures TO prevent the spread of the dis
case cannot be too promptly taken. 1t is not
only all important to our agricultural interests,
but the subject comes home to the stomach of
every beef eater in the land. Even in Lent we
don't want in our markets and provision shops
meat that has been slain in consequence of this
hateful disease.
DIR. L. MATTocKs of Lyndon, VT, suggests,
in the following communication to the Boston
journal, a remedy for this terrible disease:
"To the Editor Of The Boston journal:
Allow me, through the medium of your pa
per to suggest to herdsmen and owners of cat
tie attacked or liable to attack by the now pre-
vailing disease, that they use sulphur and pull
verized charcoal mixed with ground or grated
rac potatoes. Administer this compound free
", not only to the animals already sick, but to
those that have been exposed. The potatoes
used should be raw, not cooked, as cooking
would alter the quality of ther starch and de-
stroy its chemical properties upon which the
value of the remedy in part depends.
1t is not necessary, neither have time now,
to give detailed statement Of the philosophy
of the disease, and of tn, modus operandi Of
the medicine Sufficient COR present and prac-
tical purposes to offer the remedy for trial.
"Lyndon, Vt. L. MArTocKs, VI. d."
Mr. Flint, Secretary of the Massachusetts,
Board Of Agriculture, publishes in advance Of
the printing of new edition of his book on
Cows and Diaries, an account of the treatment
pursued in Holland as a PREVENTIVE of the dis
case now prevailing among tie cattle at North
Brookfeld. 1t is computed that as many as
two hundred millions of cattle have been lost
in Europe by this disease. The governments
of France and Holland hive offered large re-
wards for remedy, but n,ne has yet been dis
covered. Inoculation has been found preven-
tive, andfn localities where sixty per cent Of
the cattle used to die of this disease only one
per cent die since yaciniton has been tried
The process is described as follows:
"This incubation is done near the end Of the
tail. The hair is clippet off, the skin cleaned
and two incisions mace with lancet into
which the virus is introduced. The virus mus
be obtained from the lungs of COW suffering
with the disease, and killel for the purpose, and
not from an animal that hs died in the natura
way from the effects of thedsease. The manner
of obtaining it is to cut of portion of the lung
between the healthy and heinfected parts-tht
part marbled like water md blood is wrung ou
into a vessel and allowed to stand one day. wher
the bloody part will sink to the bottom, and {
lemon coloretfiiquid willfemain upon the surface
This, y free .trom scent, is fit for use and ma,
be preserved in a vial. In cold weather it will
} keep eight or ten days before becoming too cor
rupt for use, while in warm weather it will hole
good only one or two days. The drops intro
duced into each incison will produce, in weel
or fortnight, and in some cases longer time
pock quite similar TO that caused by the inocu
lation of persons with the COW pox. When nj
pock appears it is presumed that the animal j
: not susceptible to tb disease. When the tai
} of the animal becomes much swollen, an incs
; ion is made, in ordc' that the infectious matte
may run out, and he wound is from time L
, time cleanscd with water"