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acute, specific, contagious, and malignant typhoid character, which 

 runs its course in a very short time. The noticeable symptoms consist 

 of elevated temperature, quick breathing, pulse scarcely perceptible, 

 watery discharge from the mouth and nostrils, drooping head and ears, 

 trembling and twitchings of the muscles all over the body, coat on end, 

 and dirty eruptions and ulcerations are seen in the mouth and vagina. 

 Death, very soon, is the invariable accompaniment. This disease is 

 under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, and really is of a very 

 contagious and highly infectious nature. Happily, however, it has 

 not visited our shores for some time. Anyone wishing for further 

 particulars and details respecting this disease should refer to the late 

 Principal Williams' " Principles and Practice" of Veterinary Medicine 

 (8th edition). 



460. Foot and Mouth Disease, or Murrain. — This is a 

 contagious, eruptive, vesicular, febrile disease, affecting the mouth, 

 feet, and udder with, at first, small eruptive vesicles, which afterwards 

 burst, and form ulcerating sores. Some cases are of a more acute 

 nature than others ; and, again, we may have the mouth attacked, and 

 the feet free, and vice-versa. It affects cattle, sheep, and pigs — young 

 pigs especially, at times, suffer severely, and die suddenly, when the 

 morbid material gains admittance to the body. The period of incubation 

 varies from one to four days, with an elevation of temperature from 

 2^ to 5°. The most prominent Symptoms are saliva foaming from the 

 mouth, with a distinctive peculiar smacking of the lips and tongue ; the feet, 

 occasionally, are so sore that the animal does not dare to move th.em, 

 unless by twitching them up in a very abrupt manner ; the vesicles 

 may be noticed as before-mentioned. This disease is now scheduled 

 under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, but it has not been 

 suppressed, though the country was free from it for some time before 

 it lately re-appeared. I have seen a great number of outbreaks, and 

 although the disease did not prove very fatal, yet it caused a great 

 loss to stock-owners; especiall}' was this so in dairy and breeding herds, 

 the greatest loss being from calving cows casting their calves, and 

 retaining the afterbirth, this being complicated with sore udders, &c. 



