Consumption in the Lower rarely occurs in horses, the health-depressing influences which produce it in man and other animals inducing in them glanders (q.v.) and farcy (q.v.). It is also rare among dogs, but is common in oxen and sheep, and still more so in pigs. It is one of the chief causes of death amongst the apes and other denizens of our zoological gardens. It is produced, as in man, by over-crowding, damp lodging, bad food, neglected colds, and the like debilitating causes. It is notoriously is frequently developed by breeding from parents nearly related to each other, and mostly affects animals of faulty conformation, prevailing, for example, amongst cows with small thin necks, narrow carcasses, hollow flanks, and dirty unhealthy -looking skins. Such animals are, moreover, subject to dysentery; indeed, the two diseases depend, in cattle, on the same tuberculous or scrofulous state of sys tem; they occur in the same stocks, and often replace each other in different genera tions. Iu all animals, the well-marked symptoms are very analogous. In cows, appe tite and rumination become irregular; the coat stares, the skin is dry, and firmly adherent to the ribs; time animal is dull, loses flesh, is sometimes feverish, and if in milk, the secretion is diminished, blue, and poor; a tickling cough is easily excited; and diarrhea is readily set up, and once established, is arrested with difficulty. As the dis ease advances. the lymphatic glands about the neck and elsewhere are enlarged; the
fever, cough, and debility increase; the pulse is weak and quick; the excretions are fetid; and purulent discharges trickle from the eyes and nostrils. C. in the lower ani mals is certainly curable, especially in the earlier stages. The treatment consists mainly in attention to regimen and diet, with careful protection from damp, cold, and other causes inimical to health. The food should be good, easily digested, and nourishing, and the capricious appetite coaxed by frequent variety. For cows, linseed or other convenient oleaginous articles should be freely used. Irregularity of the bowels may be remedied by an occasional dose of treacle, or by a small quantity of linseed or of castor oil; but active purgatives, and, indeed, all powerful and irritating drugs, must be avoided. A few simple tonics may sometimes be advisable. C. might be greatly limited by rejecting, for breeding purposes, all animals having any tuberculous taint, and by greater attention to the feeding, shelter, and warmth of young stock. Neglect of these latter precautions is the cause of its unusual prevalence amongst the young cattle of the more exposed parts of our eastern coast. Its connection with over-crowd ing and faulty sanitary arrangements, is evident from its frequent occurrence amongst the cows that have for several mouths been inmates of our badly managed town dairies.