80 THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF 



The patient's diet should consist of oatmeal griiel, slightly 

 alkalized with hyposulphite of soda. 



In a late number of the Veterinarian I find the following ar- 

 ticle upon epizootic aphthae : — 



" EpizoiStic Aphthoe, commonly known as foot and mouth com- 

 plaint, is a febrile, very contagious, and panzootic aifection — 

 I.e., readily communicable from one species to another — met 

 with in the horse, goat, pig, fowl, hare, etc., but most commonly 

 in the ox and sheep, in which last two mentioned animals it 

 consists of vesicles breaking out on the mouth, gums, lips, teats, 

 and around the coronary surface of the foot between the skin 

 and the hoof. It is an Epizootic affection, spreading over large 

 tracts of country, interfering very seriously with the capability 

 of the ox to put on f^t * whilst preparing for the butcher,' and 

 in the milch cow rendering the supply of milk small, if not 

 altogether suspending it. 



" In this disease the ox exhibits the following symptoms : — 

 Suspension of rumination, constipation, sometimes, though 

 rarely, diarrhoea, great flow of saliva from the mouth, and severe 

 lameness. 



" Milk taken from cows affected with this disease should 

 never be drank, as it will most readily produce aphthce in man. 

 To prove this fact, Professor Ilertwig, together with two medi- 

 cal men, Mann and Vilion, drank the warm milk of an aphthous 

 cow, and the result was that each became the subjects of severe 

 inflammation of the throat, associated with the vesicular erup- 

 tions mentioned above as indicative of this malady. 



" Professor Simonds also gave the warm milk of an aphthous 

 cow to pigs, with a similar result." 



DESCRIPTION OF THE STOMACH. 



The stomach of a ruminating animal presents a very com- 

 plex arrangement, of which the purpose seems to be to favor 

 the mechanical reduction of the food, and its impregnation by 

 the salivial and gastric fluids, before it is subjected to the ac- 

 tion of the biliary and pancreatic juices. 



