THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASE TN FRANCE. 
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skin is of a red violet colour. It may be regularly torn towards 
the middle, and discovers a fungus formed by the transversal 
ligament, the simple fall of which has been described by several 
authors under the name of Li mace. This fungus escapes through 
the opening of the integument in proportion as it is detached, 
and finishes by falling on the eighth or twelfth day, and leaving a 
large and long wound, hollow, with a red colour appearing on the 
black, and from which runs an ichorous fluid of the same colour, 
of a strong and disagreeable smell, which serves as a vehicle to the 
portions of tissue that detach themselves from the wound. The 
evil may become deeper if, before this, it attacks the capsular 
ligament, as well as the synovial membrane of the articulation of 
the first phalangien with the second, or of the latter with the 
third, and that in the internal part. The synovia escapes by 
means of the wound, the lining membrane is destroyed, fistulas 
form themselves on the exterior, the bones increase in size, and, 
when we are inclined to believe that the wound is cicatrizing, a 
new fistula forms itself, and appears in the centre of a kind of 
cul de poule*. The lameness, for a little while suppressed, ap- 
pears again with greater violence; the cow no longer dares to 
put her foot to the ground ; the hoof grows thin, and the foot is 
deformed more and more. When cicatrization takes place, the 
animal still remains lame. 
This complication of the disease, which has hardly ever taken 
place except in a single hoof and a single foot, was apparent on 
three cows and a calf belonging to M. Joachim. I only know 
one cow who has experienced this complication in the two hind 
feet and their two hoofs. It had been a long time without being 
able to rise; and even now, although six months have elapsed since 
the commencement of the disease, it walks with extreme diffi- 
culty. This cow belonged to M. Auge, of the Cambes, which 
had another attack of this affection on the two hoofs of the hind 
feet. 
[To be continued.] 
* The cul de poule of the veterinarian is an ulcer, the borders of which 
project and turn over. 
