Remedy for Foot-and-Mouth Disease. 
91 
was then seized witli the comphilnt. The veterinary inspector 
advised my at once killing the young pigs, as they would surely 
die ; indeed such has been the case in my neighbourhood under 
the old treatment. It is rather a difficult operation to smear 
the pig's snout. She was, therefore, only given water im- 
pregnated with the acid. In two days she was perfectly cured, 
and her five pigs are quite well, and will, no doubt, live to 
accomplish the aim and object of a pig's life — to get fat in the 
shortest possible time. Up to this date forty-three head of 
stock have had it for an average time of about four and a half 
days each. The animals that were attacked have nearly all 
gained in condition, and really the only loss has been that of 
the milk for a few days, but 1 have no veterinary bill to pay. 
I recollect some years ago fourteen bullocks being attacked 
with pleuro-pneumonia on a neighbouring farm. The larmer 
employed two veterinary surgeons, one a homoeopath, the other 
an allopath. I asked him which practitioner he preferred : he 
said he scarcely knew what answer to give, for all the bullocks 
had died ; but he preferred, upon the whole, the allopath, for he 
could see the thick drinks he gave, whilst the homoeopathic 
medicine was not discernible. I think my practical experience 
will show that many thousands of gallons of drinks now used 
may be superseded by the use of salicylic acid, and in the 
course of a very few days animals may be restored, and even 
improved in health, by the use of salicylic adid. In order to 
spread this far and wide, having once been President of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, I have taken advantage of the 
kindness of the Editor of its ' Journal ' to give through its 
medium the earliest intelligence of this German discovery. 
It is difficult to obtain an accurate account of the many 
thousands of animals throughout England now suffering from 
foot-and-mouth disease. In this county, the highest return for 
one week has been 4722 head. One hundred and twenty-three 
animals have died — all of which, in my opinion, would have 
recovered had the remedy given to them been salicylic acid. 
Since this fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which 
began on the 2nd of October, and the accounts of which are 
made up to the 5th of February, no less than 2704 farms in 
Great Britain have been declared infected, 103,607 animals 
have been attacked, and on the 5th of February 39,765 animals 
remained under treatment. The County Returns, at any rate 
those in Suffolk, are so badly drawn out that I cannot tell how 
many animals have been affected in this county. There must 
be a considerable number of deaths throughout England, but it 
is rather to the loss of condition than to the number of deaths 
that we must look ; and we should welcome any new medicine 
