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of quarantine has been reduced from twenty-one
days to ten.
And, then, with respect to the first reliable symptoms
of the distemper, it would seem that great
practical knowledge is required for their discovery,
for at first there is only the general look of malaise;
but soon the coat is staring, the eye dull, the gait
unsteady, the horns and extremities are cold, and
there is frequent shivering; besides which there is
loss of appetite, rumination ceases, and with milch
cows there is a failure of milk. Not long after this,
more characteristic symptoms appear—the breathing
is quick and moaning, the animal stands with a
drooping head, the eyes are blood shot and suffused
with tears, the mouth is sore in patches,and the vulva
is red and congested. Then come the most positive
signs of it in the copious discharge from the eyes and
nose, and in the diarrhoea and dysenteric purging.
All these symptoms may follow each other quickly
—within a single day, but most commonly they
require from two to three days for their manifestation.
In some cases of great malignity the
animals have died in from twelve to fourteen hours
after the commencement of the attack, but generally
the disease is protracted to the fifth or sixth
day, and occasionally to the eighth and ninth.
Four tidy—With respect to the mortality of the