138 ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
heifer — were attacked. The precaution adopted by him was to 
house the infected cattle in a building altogether apart from his 
other stock, and he employed one man to attend to them, who was 
not permitted to enter the barn, or any other out-house. What- 
ever hay or straw might be required was laid in readiness for 
him to take away ; and Mr. Foster was the more particular, as 
he had some fat cattle almost ready for the butcher, as well as 
several milch cows. Not the slightest trace of disease appeared 
on any of them. 
In Durham, Mr. C. H. Bainbridge, near Chester-le-Street, 
gives an account of the epidemic as it appeared on his farm. 
Out of one hundred head of cattle, eight only were attacked by 
the epidemic. The disease first appeared in the mouth, and, 
thirty hours afterwards, in the feet. They had all perfectly re- 
covered in about three weeks. Epsom salts, with the spirit of 
nitrous ether, was given internally, and the mouth bathed with 
alum, sulphate of copper, and vinegar. 
Mr. Farrow, of Ash, near Durham, could not trace any con- 
nexion between the disease and the soil or pasture on which the 
animals fed, but believed that it was at first confined to the cattle 
that had frequented the fairs and markets, and was spread both 
by infection and contagion. Any person or thing coming into 
contact with a diseased animal rapidly propagated the malady ; 
and, wherever it was accidentally introduced by a diseased ani- 
mal, it spread with a rapidity scarcely credible. Mr. Farrow re- 
lates a singular circumstance in corroboration of this. A farmer 
purchased a calf in the market, and on his arrival home, in order 
to place the young animal in a warm and comfortable berth, he 
took it into the cow-house among his cows. Perceiving, how- 
ever, that the young animal was unwell, it was quickly removed 
to another place, where it soon died. On the third day after- 
wards, the cow that had stood next to the calf became diseased. 
Three days after this the next exhibited symptoms of illness, 
and in six days the whole of the dairy was affected. The rest 
of the cattle on the farm was kept separated from these, and 
escaped. 
A pig in the same yard broke from his confinement, and got 
to the dunghill, where he ate some pieces of turnip that came 
from the diseased cattle. On the third day after this he became 
affected, while not one of the other pigs suffered in the slightest 
degree. 
The symptoms of the disease, as described by Mr. Farrow, are 
well deserving of observation. The animal seeks the most shel- 
tered situation; the legs are brought as closely together as possi- 
ble, and the back is considerably elevated. The animal shivers at 
