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Draper's reports of what he was able to hear, on Saturday, 

 November 15,1 went to Wrenthani, and with the inspector 

 of animals, Dr. Elisha M. Brastow, drove to Cumberland Hill, 

 R. I., and saw a herd of cattle owned by H. H. Sprague. 

 Mr. Sprague informed me that the disease was first brought 

 to his place about the first of October by three cows that 

 came from a neighbor to be slaughtered This neighbor 

 was the man who originally had the diseased cow which 

 came from Brighton. In about ten days after the animals 

 were sent to Mr. Sprague's, his herd of thirty-three cattle 

 developed foot and mouth disease. He also had five pigs 

 which he told me had it. The animals had evidently had it 

 very severely, as it was a month after the first appearance 

 of the disease when I first saw them, and they had not all 

 fully recovered then. I was not positive as to its being 

 foot and mouth disease, and asked where I could see some 

 fresh cases. Mr. Sprague told me of a place in Smithfield, 

 R. I., where the animals had just become infected, and I 

 went home with the intention of going to Smithfield, Mon- 

 day, November 17 ; but after my arrival home I was called 

 up by Dr. Edward Knobel, inspector of animals in Dedham, 

 who asked me if we had foot and mouth disease in this 

 country. I told him that we were not supposed to, as the 

 United States was thought to be free of it ; but as he Avas 

 about leaving the telephone I asked him his reason for ask- 

 ing the question. He said, if we did, he thought he had it 

 in a herd of cattle in Dedham. I told him that stranger 

 things had happened, and I would come out there the next 

 day. I drove to Dedham, Sunday afternoon, November 16, 

 accompanied b}^ Dr. Theobald Smith, professor of compara- 

 tive pathology at Harvard University, whom I invited to go 

 with me. We went to Mr. John K. Burgess's place in Ded- 

 ham, where Ave found thirty-eight cows and a bull, all of 

 which had been sick for about a week. The history there 

 was that about three weeks before he bought a cow from a 

 Brighton dealer and kept her about a week. He did not 

 like her, because she did not eat well, and was lame, and 

 returned her to the dealer. In about ten days after return- 



