82 ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
any difference. It did not appear that the mouths of the sheep 
were much if at all affected, but their feet were very bad, and 
most of his ewes have cast their hoofs and got new ones. For a 
fortnight they went on their knees, and had to be very carefully 
fed and attended to. He had ten score of ewes, and few escaped. 
He had had no case, and he heard of none, of an animal being 
a second time affected. 
His cattle were, from the beginning, fed on turnips, oil-cake, 
and straw ; the cows on hay and turnips ; and the sheep on 
turnips, oil-cake, split-beans, and bran, with salt. To the sheep 
he gave no medicine whatever, and did not lose one. To the 
cattle he gave, on the first appearance of the disease, the com- 
mon aperient drink — Epsom salts, sulphur, and nitre. He bled 
in the first two cases ; but afterwards abandoned the use of the 
lancet, finding that those that had been bled were longest in re- 
covering. 
He did not lose one animal by the disease, though some of his 
neighbours did. 
The quantity of milk was diminished, although the udder was 
not affected. His cows were mostly advanced in calf at the time, 
and one has calved since — one of the two that escaped the disease. 
The two cows that escaped were pregnant and near their time 
of calving ; but others pregnant, though not so near the time of 
calving, have taken the disorder. 
He heard that the disease has caused abortion ; but he could 
not speak to this from his own knowledge. 
He knew of no instance ; his cows that had the disease not 
having yet calved. 
No cutaneous eruptions have appeared amongst his stock. 
The cattle suffered in condition in proportion to the mildness 
or severity of the attack, and the duration of the worst symp- 
toms ; but on the whole he is of opinion that his cattle suffered 
very little in condition, and now no trace of it remains among 
them. The sheep are still suffering from lameness and tender- 
ness in the feet, having lost their hoofs, and he has some fear 
lest the number of lambs may be materially affected. He is 
doing all he can to restore the condition of the ewes, who suf- 
fered more than any other animals from the severity of the in- 
flammation in the feet. 
He has on his farms twenty-six horses, of all kinds ; not one of 
which has been in any way ill or disordered during or since the 
appearance of the epidemic. 
They have not been attacked by influenza this winter, though 
this complaint is often common amongst the farm horses. 
The epidemic continued among his cattle about twenty-six 
or twenty-eight days, and the sheep were seized about fourteen 
