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ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
appeared, and that was a few days after calving. She had con- 
siderable inflammation of the udder. She had two calves, nei- 
ther of whom were affected by the disease. 
It began in the mouth : her tongue was much blistered, and 
there was considerable frothing from the mouth. The animals 
that were more than usually bad in the mouth very seldom had 
inflammation of the feet to any great extent, and vice versa. 
There was no second attack of the disease among any of them. 
He administered a saline purgative to each, and bathed the 
mouth with some astringent, which was also used for the feet. 
The udders were considerably affected, and some of them for 
awhile lost one of the quarters ; but the swelling soon subsided as 
the milk returned. Pregnancy bestowed no immunity from the dis- 
ease. One cow suckled two calves, and neither of them, was 
infected. The disease never appeared in the feet of any sucking 
animal. The cattle that were diseased lost very little condition, and 
have all fed well since ; and there were not any diseased horses on 
the farm. The epidemic went through the whole of the cattle in 
about a month, and then disappeared. The sheep-stock was at 
no time affected, although the disease was very prevalent among 
the flocks in the neighbourhood. 
Mr. Guy has kindly favoured me with a recent communication 
on this point. He says, that, in the year after the occurrences 
just related, he bought a large lot of kiloes from Scotland, which 
reached his farm with the disease strong upon them, and which 
he put among his other stock without the slightest scruple. The 
disease appeared among all the kiloes and some young quays 
that were among them ; but neither the elder cattle nor the sheep 
took it in a single instance. He did not house any of them, but 
only gave to a few of the worst a half-pound dose of salts, and they 
soon recovered. None of them were ill more than four or five 
days, and in some of them the appetite was not in the slightest 
degree suspended. The whole lot consisted of about fifty beasts. 
Some of this gentleman’s ewes, that were very ill in 1841, 
brought up their lambs badly in the next spring; and several of 
them never quite recovered, but wasted away and died. No very 
marked disease or cause of wasting was discoverable when they 
were examined by the butcher after death. 
The reply of Mr. William Jobson, of Chillingham Newtown, 
will conclude our account of Northumberland. 
The epidemic prevailed among part of his cattle, all his pigs, 
and part of his sheep. 
It also appeared on many farms within a mile of his, as well 
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