276 THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES AMONG HOUSES, &c. 
turnpike- road, between their pasture and the cow-shade, where 
they were milked twice a-day. On the 19th of October there 
was a large fair at Yarm, two miles from hence. Many diseased 
cattle were at the fair ; and, as a precaution, we laid lime upon 
that part of the road where they crossed from their pasture to 
come to the cow-houses, and did not, for a month after the fair, 
drive the cows along the road, as previously had been done for 
nearly a quarter of a mile in length, four times a-day. 
The cow was at grass, having calved on October 2d previously; 
she was five years old, and the dam of the bull-calf that obtained 
the premium at Cambridge, in 1840. 
When brought out of the field to milk — before five o’clock in 
the morning — she was not perceived to be unwell ; but when she 
returned to the field a glairy fluid was observed to run from her 
mouth among the grass, which she was unable to bite. She was 
brought into a house immediately, separate from all other cattle, 
and there tied up, and kept so for thirty-six days ; when, having 
perfectly recovered, she was put to my Duke bull, and I expect 
she is again in calf. On opening her mouth the inflammation 
was evidently very great, affecting her tongue, &c. &c. ; in three 
days her feet became affected, and she was very lame for three 
days afterwards. There has been no return of the disorder either 
in this cow or any other. 
As soon as the cow was tied up, on the 26th October, she had 
given to her lib. of Epsom salts, lib. of treacle, loz. of ginger, 
and 7 oz. of sulphur, in about four quarts of warm water. Her 
mouth was washed every two hours with a sponge dipped in 
vinegar in which alum had been dissolved, and this was repeated 
six times each day for six days afterwards. When her feet be- 
came lame, three days after taking the disorder, they were washed 
with vinegar, in which alum and the blue vitriol of the shops had 
been dissolved, the whole being made a little more warm. 
This was repeated every two hours the first day, and during three 
days afterwards six times a-day. 
The drink was never repeated ; but every four hours the cow 
had horned into her plenty of linseed gruel and oatmeal, and four 
times a-day afterwards for four days. She began to eat cut 
turnips and a little hay, and in eight days was as perfectly well 
as ever. Hay and a few turnips were given to her each day, 
while kept in the house apart from any other stock, and she was 
not put to the herd of cows for eight weeks. 
Her milk was considerably affected, and was kept separate for 
eight days, until she perfectly recovered. 
I attribute the speedy recovery of this cow to the close atten- 
tion paid to her, and they who went to see her never came near 
