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Gontagimts Foot-rot in Sheep. 
three or four sets of experiments which have extended over a 
long series of years. 
In 1867, at the instigation of the members of the Maidstone 
Farmers’ Club, who sent cases of foot-rot to the Royal Veteri- 
nary College for the purpose, an investigation was carried on 
for twelve months, and the results were sufficiently definite to 
justify the conclusion that the disease can be produced by 
Fig. 7.— Distortion of hoof in an advanced form of foot-rot. 
contact with an infected animal, and also by the application of 
the discharge from a diseased foot to the skin between the 
digits. Inoculation of the discharges by puncturing the skin, 
and in other cases by removing a small portion of the hoof of a 
healthy foot and applying the matter to the exposed secreting 
surface, was generally followed by healing of the injured part ; 
but some days afterwards the skin between the digits became 
moist and swollen, and the early stage of foot-rot was developed, 
