PREVENTION, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT gy 



Williams: — lead acetate and zinc sulphate, each 3ii; carbolic acid, 

 3i ; water, i pint. Absorbent cotton or tow saturated with the solu- 

 tion may be kept bandaged over the coronets. Sheep may be driven 

 through troughs containing the same solution, twice daily, or 

 through solutions of 2 per cent, lysol or creolin. Tar and 10 per 

 cent, ointments of creolin "and lysol are also effective about the feet. 

 If there is much sloughing about the hoof, a solution of carbolic 

 acid in glycerine may be applied (1-16). 



Both animals and persons with foot-and-mouth disease should 

 be isolated and those caring for them. Milk from sick cows is un- 

 fit for food and the disease is very fatal for this reason in sucklings. 

 Boiling the milk for 20 minutes will render it non-infectious, but at 

 the same time, being altered in composition and often containing 

 pus and products of mastitis, it can not be wholesome nutriment. 



When the udder is attacked, frequent milking and application 

 of glycerite of boroglycerine, together with treatment recommended 

 for mammitis, are advisable. 



Infection about the premises may last from one to several 

 months; the bodies of the patients may harbor living infection for 

 about two weeks after the lesions are scabbed over. After this lat- 

 ter period thorough cleansing and disinfection of the premises are 

 indicated. One attack does not confer immunity. Inoculation of 

 the saliva of a patient into a healthy animal by rubbing it into the 

 abraded membrane of the mouth, or by introducing it under the 

 skin on the point of a knife, will render an attack lighter and 

 shorten the duration of an outbreak in a barn. But this is rarely 

 permitted nowadays, as it only tends to spread the disease. 



In the latest outbreak in the United States (1908) the cost 

 of quarantine, destruction of animals, etc., was borne by the federal 

 government and states, the government paying two-thirds and the 

 state one-third of the cost. We must conclude by emphasizing the 

 fact that medical treatment is not permissible in civilized com- 

 munities. 



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