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New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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A mysterious disease has afflicted cattle in Exeter for several weeks, causing numerous deaths. Symptoms include eye heaviness, breathing difficulties, and reduced milk production. Various treatments like bleeding, horn injections with vinegar and pepper, and salt applications have shown some success.
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Symptoms. The first appearance is heaviness about the eyes, difficulty of breathing, and a general languor. Cows immediately fall short of giving their usual quantity of milk.
The method which has been practised with several, and with some degree of success, is first to garget and bleed them, to bore the horns on the upper part, and in some cases above and below, and with a syringe to inject vinegar and black pepper, and occasionally spirits of turpentine mixed with alcohol and new rum. Tar-water has also been used, in and about the horns. Fine salt thrown into the mouth, and injecting vinegar with pepper into the nostrils, has had a good effect in causing them, by exertion, to throw off the corrupted matter. A small bag filled with fine salt, tied on the top of the head, or between the horns, and once or twice in the day wet with vinegar or cider, is considered beneficial.—We are unable to inform the public what the name of the disease is.
Exeter paper.
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Primary Location
Exeter
Event Date
For A Few Weeks Past
Outcome
death of a considerable number of cattle; some success with treatments
Event Details
A disease has affected the cattle of several persons in this town, causing deaths. Symptoms: heaviness about the eyes, difficulty of breathing, general languor, reduced milk in cows. Treatments include gargeting and bleeding, boring horns and injecting vinegar and black pepper, spirits of turpentine with alcohol and rum, tar-water, fine salt in mouth and nostrils with vinegar and pepper, salt bag on head wet with vinegar or cider.