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previously mentioned — corisist of an intlamniation of the 

 stomach and intestines, with perhaps erosions of these or- 

 gans. Especially is this the case in infants, pigs and calves 

 infected hy the use of milk from diseased cows. 



The medicinal care of foot and mouth disease consists in 

 treating the symptoms, as they occur, by the use of anti- 

 septic washes, and b}^ the application of dusting powders to 

 the ulcerations. The food should be soft, and of an easily 

 digested character. Large flocks of sheep, where it is im- 

 possible to attend to each individual case, are sometimes 

 treated, when the foot lesions predominate, by driving the 

 entire flock daily through a long wooden trough containing 

 some antiseptic drying powder.* 



My attention was first called to the possible existence of 

 foot and mouth disease in this section on Wednesday, No- 

 vember 12. Mr. Dennen, the agent of the Cattle Bureau 

 in charge of the stock yards at Brighton, came to the office 

 after market on that date, and informed me that Mr. Henry 

 S. Turner, one of the Rhode Island Cattle Commissioners, 

 who lives at Scituate, R. I., told him that he was afraid that 

 they had foot and mouth disease in Rhode Island. He said 

 that the disease was taken down there by a cow that was 

 brought to the Brighton market from Charlton in Worcester 

 County ; she was taken from there to Chelsea, and in two 

 or three weeks from Chelsea back to Brighton, and from 

 Brighton she went with others to Cumberland, R. I. ; and 

 that the disease had spread to several herds in that locality. 



I immediately wrote to Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industr}^ at Washington, of what I had 

 heard, and told him I would investigate the matter further, 

 and report as soon as I could learn more. 



An agent of the Cattle Bureau, Dr. A. W. Draper, hap- 

 pened to be in the office at the time Mr. Dennen told me of 

 Mr. Turner's fears. He was going to Wrentham the next 

 day and to North Attleborough the following day, and I 

 told him to find out what he could when he was down next 

 to the Rhode Island line, and report to me. From Dr. 



* A part of the above is taken from an article written by me recently for the 

 " Reference Hand-book of the Medical Sciences." 



