sease,
the Eye it self is a Witness; since the dead Carcases being open'd while
they are yet hot, little or no Blood runs out; those Animals having
naturally a thick Blood, especially when the fever has continued so many
Days. And he adds, that whether this Plague came first from the Foreign
Beast, or any other way, it only had its Effect upon some Animal, in which
there was the morbid Seminary or Ground prepared for it.

In the dead Bodies of all the Cattle, it was particularly observ'd, that
in the Omasus, or Paunch, there was found a hard compact Body, firmly
adhering to the Coats of the Ventricle, of a large Bulk, and an
intolerable Smell: In other Parts, as in the Brain, Lungs, _&c._ were
several Hydatides, and large Bladders fill'd only with Wind, which being
open'd, gave a disagreeable Stink: there were also Ulcers at the Root of
the Tongue; and Bladders fill'd with a Serum on the sides of it. This hard
and compact Body, like Chalk, in the Omasus, the Author takes to be the
full Product of the contagious Miasma. He adds a Prognostick, believing
that from so many Attempts and Experiments, and the Method observ'd in the
Cure of this Venom, at last a true and specifick Remedy will be found out
to extirpate the poisonous Malignity wholly: He also expects some
mitigation of it, from the approaching Winter and North Winds. He does
not think this Contagion can affect Human Bodies, since even other
Species of ruminating Animals, symbolizing with the Cow-kind, are yet
untouch'd by it; nor was the Infection taken by the Air, after the dead
Bodies had been carefully Buryed.

As for the Cure of it: From the Chirurgical part, he commends _Bleeding_,
burning on both sides the Neck with a broad red-hot Iron, making Holes in
the Ears with a round Iron, and putting the Root Hellebore in the Hole, a
_Rowel_ or _Seton_ under the _Chin_, in the _Dew-laps_; he also orders the
_Tongue_ and _Palate_ to be often wash'd and rub'd with _Vinegar_ and
_Salt_.

He recommends the Use of _Alexipharmicks_, and specifick Cordials; and
three Ounces of Jesuits Bark, infus'd in ten or twelve Pints of Cordial
Water or small Wine, to be given in four or five Doses; which is to be
done in the beginning of the Fever, when the Beast begins to be Sick. Or
else two Drams of _Sperma-Caeti_ dissolv'd in warm Wine. Again he
prescribes _Antimonium Diaphoreticum_. Against Worms breeding, an Infusion
of Quicksilver, or _Petroleum_ and Milk is to be given. And