140 ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
among stock taken place, and which usually occurs at this sea- 
son, than it reappeared. The summer produced few cases, but 
the number increased as autumn came on ; it, however, as- 
sumed a very mild character, affecting the animals in a verv 
slight degree. Since that time it has occasionally appeared 
among the cattle on a farm, without any assignable cause, but 
generally confining itself to the place. There is at present at a 
short distance from me a stock of fourteen kyloes affected with 
it. They were bought in the autumn, and, since that time, 
had been pasturing upon a high and exposed situation. About 
a week previously it broke out among them, without any dis- 
coverable cause. 
During the time that the cattle disease was most prevalent, 
horses were generally healthy ; but last winter, 1842, presented 
frequent influenza among them. At present, catarrhal affec- 
tions, with sore throat, is very common, and also strangles 
among the younger kinds. 
In many animals the appetite and general health seemed little 
affected, and health was restored in the space of a few days ; 
but in others, and particularly in fat cattle and in milch cows 
in high condition, the appetite was diminished or lost, and the 
animal suffered considerable pain, with general fever. 
Mr. Farrow usually administered a purging drink, but seldom 
bled, except the symptomatic fever ran high, from the inflamed 
state of the feet. In such case it usually afforded considerable 
relief. The heels were also considerably scarified, or well fo- 
mented, or placed in a pailful of warm water. Astringent mix- 
tures were afterwards applied to the feet and the mouth. 
When the feet and mouth were somewhat relieved, the udder 
often became diseased, and assumed the character of garget. A 
little physic and fomentation with warm water, and the appli- 
cation of the solution of the diacetate of lead, frequently removed 
the inflammation in four-and-twenty hours. 
The number of patients on whom Mr. Farrow attended ex- 
ceeded two hundred, and none of them were lost; but where the 
farmer treated the disease himself, several cows died. This 
was attributable to the want of proper management during the 
disease. 
The fat cattle, and the milking cows in high condition, had 
the disease most severely. Young stock in moderate condition 
were slightly affected. When, however, the hoofs were lost 
and the udders suppurated, it was some weeks before the animals 
regained their proper health. 
Mr. Farrow concludes with some very important advice. The 
epidemic attacks those cattle first that have been at any market 
