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Treatment. — If there should be several animals die in the 
same district, and you suspect this disease, send for one of 
the government veterinary inspectors, who looks after all 
contagious diseases. The treatment he will follow, after he is 
sure of this disease, is: — He will have the affected herd im- 
mediately destroyed, and the people who have been attending 
the cattle and those who are on the farm will not be allowed 
to leave the farm for ninety days. All the stables where the 
cattle have been will be disinfected and no other cattle will 
be allowed on the farm for ninety days after the slaughter. 
Medical treatment is of no avail in this disease, and you are 
not allowed to treat them. 
2. Foot and Mouth Disease (Epizootic Aphtha). 
This disease while only recently f-ncountered in America 
is quite common in European countries. The skin, mouth, 
feet and udder are the oreans mostly affected. Tt cannot b. 
Fig. 70. — Foot Jind Mouth Disease. 
looked upon as extremely fatal, although immense loss is oc- 
casioned by loss in flesh and the depreciation in the amount 
of milk fit for use. 
Causes. — Contagion is accomplished principally through 
the discharge from the mouth, although this is apparently not 
the only way in which the disease is transmitted. Large 
