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parts. In one stable, containing three cows, the author pre- 
scribed sulphate of soda internally to remove costiveness. 
The author submits that the treatment to oppose to an epi- 
zootic, such as the aphthungular fever, ought to be simple, 
of easy application, and inexpensive, the loss of milk and 
also of condition being already very considerable, without the 
addition of the medicaments. 
The malady has been characterised mostly by the eruption 
of vesicles in the mouth and feet ; cases -where it was limited 
to the mouth and nostrils have not been common. The 
simultaneous appearance of the exanthema in the mouth, 
mammary gland, and feet, has been very rare, the author 
having only observed it in five cases. From the whole of 
the facts, observed during the prevalence of the epizootic, 
the conclusion is that aphthous fever is an infectious malady, 
developed through the influence of a miasma of an unknown 
nature, attacking a certain number of animals in an undeter- 
mined space of country, and propagated from one animal to 
the other by contact. 
DE LA EIEYRE APHTHEURA FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
From a report of the last quarter of 1869 of M. Contamine, 
Government Yeterinary Surgeon, Province of Hainaut. 
The aphthungular fever, as the author designates it, ap- 
peared in the Canton of Peruwelz in the beginning of Sep- 
tember. The first cases occurred in a hamlet on the out- 
skirts of the town of Peruwelz, which w as situated altogether 
away from the main roads. As to the three cows, the pro- 
perty of a cultivator, which were attacked, they had never 
been off his land, and were reared on it ; they were affected 
spontaneously, without any know n cause, the malady being 
unknown in the surrounding villages. The next day the 
malady broke out in another dependence of Peruw r elz, quite 
on the opposite side, and three kilometers distant from the 
former. There, also, the malady was unknown in the 
neighbourhood. The cows in these stables were soon per- 
fectly cured, thanks to the treatment recommended, when 
the malady reappeared with extraordinary intensity in the 
cow-sheds of the first hamlet, sparing here and there a shed 
to invade others beyond them. From that time it was 
observed that the malady attacked some farms in certain vil- 
lages, while others intermediate escaped, to return afterwards 
and attack those wTich seemed to have been forgotten. 
These facts, the author says, seem to confirm the opinion 
expressed by him in 1 86 1 in his reports, since shared by 
