230 APHTHAE OB FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 



toms are shivering, succeeded by fever, cough, and 

 increased pulse. Then there is failing appetite, ten- 

 derness over the loins, slavering from the mouth, and 

 grinding of the jaws. Blisters large and small ap- 

 pear on the mouth and tongue, which break and be- 

 come raw sores with evident suffering. The feet are 

 swollen and covered with blisters which break, and 

 become sores, causing the animal to walk with diffi- 

 culty, shake the feet, kick or lie down. If the dis- 

 ease progresses, the sheep rapidly lose condition 

 from inability to eat or move about; all the symp- 

 toms increase ; the hoofs are sloughed off and even 

 the bones of the feet, leaving only a stump and ewes 

 in lamb abort. 



In favorable cases the symptoms abate gradually, 

 and the disease runs its course in from ten to fifteen 

 days. Animals have it but once. 



TREATMENT. In violent epizootics, it is safest to 

 stamp it out by the slaughter and deep burial of 

 every animal effected, and the removal of those that 

 are well from the affected locality. In any event the 

 affected sheep should at once be separated from the 

 flock, and placed in comfortable quarters where they 

 can be conveniently tended. The specific, 1 1, may 

 be given in doses of five drops three or four times per 

 day. Prepare in water as noted for AUTHRAX FEVER. 



The feet should be washed with soap and water, 

 and then with a weak solution of (Coperas,) sulphate 

 of copper, (i oz. to a bucket of water), and then 

 dressed with WITCH HAZEL OIL or Carbolic Salve, 

 and bound up to keep out the dirt. 



