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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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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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    [ »> ] that fome Gentlemen have re¬ marked, one Farmer’s Cattle re¬ main in perfedt Health, in the midft of the difeafed and dying Beafts of his Neighbours around him; for, by the fame Parity of Reafoning, one may deny the Small Pox to be contagious, be- caufe fome late Inftances have been known, where Children had large Quantities of the variolous Matter innoculated into them,with¬ out a fubfequent Infection of that Diforder ? It were eafy to bring e- qually furprizing Inftances of Per- fons, efcaping other Diforders, who had been no lefs obnoxious to the Contagion, if they had been predifpofed for the Reception of them ; and Dr. Mead, in the foregoing Treatife, hath the fol- lowing