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movable bandage. Five weeks after the apparatus was taken 
off ; the sections were closed by cicatrix. The foal has since 
been visited several times. There is no trace of the affec- 
ion, except that the extension of the fetlock is a little more 
developed than that of the corresponding leg. 
ECZEMA EPIZOOTICA. 
By J. B. Dessart, Government Veterinary Surgeon. 
Aphtha epizootica has this year been generally very 
benign. The animals attacked present nothing particu- 
lar in the different phases of the development of the exan- 
thema. However, there is a remark which I had already 
made on a former attack, and which, no doubt, has also been 
made by others, and which is in contradiction of what has 
been written on the subject by most eminent authors, viz. 
that instead of being inclined to drink, nearly all the animals 
refuse all fluids, either hot or cold, up to the period of the decline 
of the malady. I always order water, with a little meal ( eau 
blanche ), to be put within the reach of the sick animals, so as 
to enable them to refresh the buccal mucous membrane ad 
libitum. But the observation generally is that this is use- 
less, as the animals do not drink, and the experiments gene- 
rally made in my presence confirm it. In the course of the 
present epizootic I have had many opportunities to verify 
the correctness of these observations it is an important symp- 
tomatological point, which seems in contradiction with the 
general symptoms of fevers. 
The author says that he has advised and practised inocu-~ 
lation of the malady, without, however, giving the modus 
operandi , on all the cloven-footed animals, in cases where the 
malady had declared itself on one or two of them. This prac- 
tice has the double advantage of — first, that the malady is in 
general almost harmless when thus communicated by the hand 
of man ; second, that all the animals have it at the same 
time, and the proprietor gets rid of it much sooner. 
Treatment . — It suffices in general to submit the affected ani- 
mals to a soft diet, and, if possible, gargle their mouths with 
a lotion of vinegar and water, three parts of the latter to one 
part of the first, keeping the sick animals clean, and pro- 
vided with good litter, and in the course of eight or ten 
days the cure will be effected. In some cases the animals 
suffer from ulcers in the feet, caused by travelling or fatigue 
when worked; in those cases I have prescribed poultices, 
and, after the disappearance of the inflammatory symptoms, 
astringent lotions, viz. sulphate of iron one part, water six 
