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Remedy for Foot-and-Mouth Disease. 
inducing free perspiration, and very soon giving ease to the 
patient. I had often thought that foot-and-mouth disease 
generated and spread more rapidly in low lands or where 
animals were exposed by rail or otherwise to sudden changes 
of temperature. I had my reasons, therefore, for believing that 
this acid must be a valuable medicine in cases of feverish 
symptoms in animals. About the 7th of December last I pur- 
chased seven lean bullocks which had been in the possession of the 
owner for a fortnight, and had been passed as sound by the vete- 
rinary inspector. They were put into a meadow with sheds, com- 
pletely separate from all other cattle, where they remained till 
the 7th of January. They were then removed by private roads 
to a farm where there were fifty-three head of cattle, free from 
disease, besides pigs. On the 10th of January four of these 
bullocks were pronounced to have foot-and-mouth disease. One 
had a very swollen tongue, and was very ill, I ordered at 
once the following remedy to be used, and that one man alone 
who did not go near the other animals should attend them. 
Receipt. — Pour some hot water on about three tablespoonfuls 
of salicylic acid in an earthen vessel, adding lukewarm water to 
make up a gallon. The mouth and feet of the diseased animal 
should be carefully washed three times a day with this liquid, 
and the tops of the hoofs well powdered after each ablution. 
Also dissolve two table-spoonfuls of the acid in hot water, and 
add it to the drinking-water of the animals. The sheds must 
be kept quite clean, and all dung must be saturated with the 
acid to prevent further infection. 
The fourth day these bullocks began to eat, and by the 15th 
the whole seven were chewing their cud as usual. Since that 
time a month has elapsed, and although they have been supplied 
only with their usual food, they have increased in value from 
6s. to 7s. a-head. On the 15th the wind changed to the east, and 
carried the infection to twenty-three calves 50 yards distant in 
a covered yard. Now, said the local veterinary surgeon, these 
calves will die like flies. I certainly had misgivings about 
two puny calves which I always thought would die a natural 
death without disease, but the whole twenty-three have recovered, 
the disease in every case lasting only four days. The calves 
are now kicking and jumping in excellent health, and one would 
suppose from their appearance that spring was shortly approach- 
ing, but for the terrible weather. When the wind turned to the 
south twelve cows became affected, ten in-milk. All these have 
recovered, five days being the longest period any of them were 
ill. They have hardly wasted at all in their milk, and I expect 
that on the 8th or 10th day from their infection they will be 
pronounced sufficiently sound for their milk to be used. A sow 
