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What is the cattle disease called by the early modern English "burncow" or "burstcow," related to buprestis?

In Lesser Living Creatures, Thomas Moffet is describing the effect of buprestis (variously identified as an berb, a fly, and a spider) on cattle. According to ancients (Nicander among them) “If an...

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Are cattle that died from strychnine poisoning edible?

I'm writing about an early 20th-c. account of cattle poisoning in India.

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An early 20th c. writer refers to a "pus-producing" disease in cattle that is fatal to human who eat the flesh. What could that disease be?

This is from a letter by Dr. G.V. Deshmukh to M.K. Gandhi, 1933.

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