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two others the eruption was confined to the buccal mucosa. 

 Since that time records of the infection of human beings have 

 been very numerous. During the American epizootic of 1870 I 

 met with the case of a farmer at South Dover, N. Y., who suf- 

 fered from sore mouth and blisters along the margin of the 

 tongue from drinking the milk. The danger is greatest in chil- 

 dren on an exclusive milk diet and who drink it warm. Kolb in 

 1828, noticed acid vomiting and diarrhoea in such subjects, Hiib- 

 ner observed that beside the buccal eruption such children often 

 suffered from inflammation of the stomach and bowels and that 

 very young children fed on the milk of the diseased cows died. 

 Balfour, Watson and others have noticed similar results in Scot- 

 land. 



Allbutt saw the buccal eruption in three children in Yorkshire, 

 England, during the local prevalence of the English epizootic in 

 1883, and secured information of a number of other cases in the 

 same district. 



A number of cases were recorded during 1893 in German}-. A 

 shepherd infected himself by holding in his mouth the knife with 

 which he had pared the diseased feet of sheep, and another work- 

 man and a veterinarian had extensive eruptions on the hands after 

 dressing the affected feet. A number of milk-maids were infected 

 by milking, the eruption appearing on the hands, and in one case 

 on the breast. A child fed on the milk of diseased cows, had 

 chill and fever with gastric disturbance, and later an eruption of 

 vesicles on the lips and tongue and between the fingers and toes. 



Again, in 1895, during the prevalence of foot and mouth dis- 

 ease in the southern part of Berlin, a considerable number of the 

 milk consumers suffered from fever with the eruption of bullae on 

 the tongue and buccal mucosa generally, which on early bursting 

 left very painful ulcerations. The acute disease did not last more 

 than five days, but left a sense of great weakness for a time. 

 Virchow, who made an investigation, unhesitatingly pronounced 

 it to be foot and mouth disease. 



Cases of infection through butter made from infected milk are 

 on record. A Berlin veterinary student suffered from the buccal 

 eruption and erysipelatoid swelling of the ear, and a German cler- 

 gyman had in addition a period of chilliness, fever, diarrhoea and 

 pruritis. Similarly Schneider quotes cases determined by infected 



