Excerpt from The Homoeopathic Treatment of the "Incurable" Diseases of Beast and Fowl: Including Pleuro-Pneumonia, Rinderpest, or the Texas Fever, Glanders, Tuberculosis, Roup, and Chicken and Hog Cholera

The disease, named as above, first appeared in this country about the year 1841. It spread rapidly from one dairy to another, proved exceedingly fatal, swept away thousands of the most valuable cattle, and reduced many respectable and thriving farmers to beggary. Since its first appearance, it has never wholly left this country, but is by no means so common as formerly. Of those cows that were attacked, few recovered, although every means were used to lessen the fatality of the pest. The diseased cows were assiduously purged, violently blistered and se toned, and, in short, subjected to all the appliances that the ordinary system of treatment could put in force: but they still died, and the unlucky owner had to pay a large doctor's bill, besides losing the value of the animal. /hence arose a belief, which is still strongly entertained by many cow-keepers, that the disease under consideration is incurable, and that no treatment whatever can arrest itsprogress. The following pages have been written with a view to overcome this prejudice, and to show that a. Method of cure is known, which is superior to all others. The author's extensive experience, strengthened by the testimony of many farmers whose cows have been cured, and corroborated by numbers of cases, a few of which are appended to this treatise, enable him to assert that this hitherto intractable disease is as amenable to proper reme dies as any other affection, and that the only known method of cure is that called the Homoeopathic system of treatment. If every cowsowner who reads these pages will, on the first opportunity, test the accuracy of these statements by trying the remedies recommended, he will benefit himself, and, by advocating its adoption, the agri cultural interest generally will suffer less severely from this virulent malady.

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