THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN FRANCE. 
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dant salivation, often fetid, then ensues, with an extreme difficulty 
in taking food, the mastication of which is apparently impossible. 
There is oscillation or grinding of the jaws from one side to the 
other ; the mouth is obstructed by a viscous matter, as well as 
by saliva; the animal, as much as she can, holds it open, in 
order to breathe or diminish the pain that she experiences, and 
she makes a noise which the farmers have designated under the 
name of papper. 
The ears are depressed; the hair is dull and tarnished, and 
rough ; the eyes are frequently weeping; the pulse little different 
from the normal state — in several, however, it is more or less ac- 
celerated. The rumination slow, difficult, and scarcely returned 
to the mouth : the faecal matter, like the urine, is variable, and 
the secretion of the milk is sensibly diminished. 
If the cow is at the same time attacked in the feet, which fre- 
quently happens, or if the disease begins in the feet, the animal 
stands as if she were nailed to the soil : the legs are brought as 
close together as possible ; there is great difficulty in getting her 
to walk; she appears to suffer much, and catches up her legs as 
if she had pins or thorns in the feet : there is much trembling 
about the muscles of the shoulder, thighs, and buttocks, and the 
back is arched. On opening the mouth, a number of whitish 
points or elevations of the skin may be observed on the tongue, 
on the lips, and even at the end of the muzzle. Among certain 
subjects these symptoms are so slight that they pass unperceived, 
for the cows have not ceased to eat nor to walk : it is only per- 
ceived that they have difficulty in taking the food, in chewing 
it, and in the action of sucking up the fluids that are placed 
before them. 
On the second and third day the disease increases in intensity ; 
the rumination is suspended ; the milk diminished ; the paps be- 
come flabby ; the walk is more painful, and the salivation more 
abundant. The swellings in the mouth have acquired, in some 
individuals, ail their development ; and they cover the whole of 
the buccal membrane, so that the interior of the mouth appears 
like one uninterrupted sore. 
The tongue occasionally protrudes from the mouth, and ex- 
hales a fetid odour, while an abundant slimy, viscous, frothy 
matter dribbles down, loaded with a foetid discharge from the 
mouth and tongue. Occasionally, these shreds from the tongue, 
mixed with the saliva, are exceedingly troublesome. They accu- 
mulate in the throat — the animal breathes with difficulty — they 
threaten suffocation — a yellow mucus runs from the nostrils — 
the pulse is accelerated, and the hair is more tarnished and rough : 
all these evils increase with great rapidity, and occasionally, in 
