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An essay concerning the mortality, now prevailing among the horned cattle, in several parts of Europe, and chiefly about London. Wherein a plain and successful method is laid down to treat the diseased cattle, and to prevent, in a good measure, the rapid progress of this fatal disorder / By Richard Brocklesby.

  • Brocklesby, Richard, 1722-1797.
Date:
1746
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay concerning the mortality, now prevailing among the horned cattle, in several parts of Europe, and chiefly about London. Wherein a plain and successful method is laid down to treat the diseased cattle, and to prevent, in a good measure, the rapid progress of this fatal disorder / By Richard Brocklesby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ^ ] prefent Diforder, I found it grow rancid, and tending to Pu¬ trefaction, in about twenty-fix Hours after the Death of the Beafl; fo that, if Meat grow rancid, in two Days, after it is killed, at this Time, it were ad- vifable to refrain from fuch Food. Before I difmifs this Part of the Subject, it may not be amifs to relate, what an arch Butcher told me, of an ignorant Coun¬ tryman, who had often follicited him in vain for a Beef-fteak ; at length the Butcher, tired with the Fellow’s Importunities, de¬ termined to fatisfy his Defire, and about three Weeks before my wri¬ ting this, prefented the Fellow with a large Slice of the difeafed Meat ;