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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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    165 ] give a free Egrefs to this confined Air. If it be univerfally agreed, that putrid, and corrupting Ani¬ mals, expofed to the Heat of our Atmoiphere, have any Influence, in propagating peftilential Difor- ders, I mull, at this Time, beg leave to differ from the Sentiments of fome great Men, who have re¬ commended to t|se Farmers, to cover the dead Beafts in the Pits, with frefh Lime, by which Means, whenever the Lime comes to a<ff upon them, inftantly arifes that fiery, ineoercible Spirit, which, Boerhaave fays juftly, is the moft volatile of all Bodies known, and when any Quantity of ft is col¬ lected, and applied to the hard¬ ly eft