80 ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &C. 
When there is much inflammation or soreness about the feet, 
poultices of bran should be applied, or lotions of copper and zinc. 
When there is much inflammation, a lotion of acetate of lead 
should be mixed with the poultice. 
When the disease first makes its appearance, a pound of Epsom 
salts with four ounces of sulphur, and half the quantity repeated 
if the first does not operate, or, if necessary, a drachm of croton- 
cake added to this, will prove an excellent remedy. If the pulse 
rises, antimonial powder and nitre should be given night and 
morning. Symptoms of red-water will be removed by kxative 
medicines, and sulphate of iron will be indicated if the pulse 
falls. The mouth should be gargled two or three times a-day 
with a solution of alum, and one of copper may be applied to the 
feet two or three times every day. Bleeding is seldom necessary, 
as the disease is rather inclined to a typhoid character, and the 
debility induced by bleeding increases the tendency of the dis- 
ease to assume this character, and causes the blisters to ulcerate 
and slough. Moreover, from the weak state to which the ani- 
mal is reduced in consequence of its tongue and gums prevent- 
ing its taking food for one, two, or three days, it is evident that 
the bleeding is not admissible, unless acute inflammation occurs. 
Great care is necessary in nursing the animal with gruel and 
soft food. Raw turnips may be given in thin slices, and every 
care should be taken to supply the animal with clean straw. 
The same treatment is requisite for sheep and pigs, the dose 
of the medicine being about one-sixth part. 
There is little change, generally speaking, in the character of 
the milk, except abscesses appear in the udder. If the cows do 
not give so much milk when they are ill, it is chiefly because 
they are not able to take so much food. The beef is perfectly 
sound ; and, except the blistered parts about the mouth, there 
will be no other marked appearances observed. 
After this interesting account of the epidemic by Professor 
Dick, little occurs deserving of notice until we arrive on the bor- 
ders of England, except that in Berwick-on-Tweed is the resi- 
dence of John S. Donaldson Selby, Esq., and he gives the fol- 
lowing description of the rise and progress of the disease on his 
farm . 
The epidemic first made its appearance among his cows and 
feeding cattle on or about the 20th of December, 1840, and ex- 
tended to the cattle of all ages, and also to the sheep, and, in one 
case, to a pig that was shut up to feed, and to which some of 
the milk from a diseased cow had been given. The rest of the 
pigs, to the number of forty, being in the fold-yards, escaped. 
His farms are in the parish of Arcroft and county of North 
Durham, near Berwick-on-Twccd. 
