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*** We feel very great pleasure in the opportunity afforded 
us by “ — who has confided his name to us — of giving 
professional publicity to the foregoing. The pupil does not 
experience warmer feelings of gratification at receiving a prize 
of merit at the hands of his master, than does the master at the 
unanimous expression of satisfaction on the part of his pupils. 
Ed. Vet. 
BLACK QUARTER, OR QUARTER EVIL. 
By Peter Broughton, V.S., Hounslow. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Sir, — I f you deem the following remarks worthy of notice, 
and the number of your correspondence admit of it, 1 shall feel 
obliged by their insertion in your pages, hoping they will lead 
to further information on the subject from some abler hands 
than mine. Mr. Cook, in his letter, invites “ remarks” on the 
disease he calls “ black quarter.” Now, had it not been from 
a wish to see the diseases of cattle more correctly classed and 
named than they are at present, I should not, on this occa- 
sion, have troubled you with any of mine. I have seen a 
disease differing so greatly from what Mr. Cook mentions, and 
yet called black quarter, that I am sure he will, like myself, 
feel much pleasure if our remarks should lead to a more satis- 
factory account of the nature, cause, and treatment of the dis- 
ease in question from abler pens than ours. The disease I 
take to be correctly termed black quarter or quarter evil ; both 
names being applied by persons in the same locality when 
speaking of it, they using sometimes the one and sometimes the 
other. 
The disease is found to prevail at certain seasons, to a very 
considerable extent, on the north-west coast of our own country, 
and in the Isle of Man, also along the north and north-west 
coast of Ireland. In the Isle of Man it is very destructive at 
times, and frequently attacks their best animals. The occupiers 
of farms on the island, where the situation is low, look very 
suspiciously at a calf or steer if it happen to shake its foot (as 
many of your readers must have noticed the cattle do when first 
attacked with eczema epizootica), as though something had just 
pricked or stung them, that being generally the first symptom 
observable. A few hours afterwards the animal may be seen 
walking lame, and in less than twenty-four hours the whole 
limb will be mortified, and the animal’s death ensue. In some 
it attacks the fore leg, and in others the hind one ; the skin 
