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THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN FRANCE. 
fleam will make the blood flow as rapidly as from a large vein. 
An ox belonging to M. Le Herisson, of Saouet, offers an example 
of this. A single blow with the fleam, given on the cannon, 
produced a stream of blood, in consequence of which the animal 
fainted and fell. This bleeding arrested an affection of the 
lungs that had, for a long time, been rapidly increasing. 
After having had the feet bled and bathed I wrap them in 
emollient herbs, moistened with a watery infusion, several times 
a-day, and as soon as it is possible I hasten to detach the 
eschars. If the feet again became gorged with blood, I recom- 
mend another application of the fleam, and so on, until its entire 
disgorgement. After having detached the eschars, I cauterised 
the opening. 
When spina ventosa is developed, and the cow begins to 
walk again, I well rub in the populeum ointment* on the integu- 
ment. I endeavour to bring back the hoof to its primitive state, 
by paring and well rubbing it with the foot ointment. If the 
animal walks on his heels, I place strong calkins on its feet. If 
it drags itself on its knees, I thickly pad a strong piece of linen 
and attach it to this part, for the double purpose of avoiding 
friction and preserving it from moisture, the consequence of 
which in such case is much to be feared. 
When there are pustules on the teats, bleeding must be 
avoided as much as possible. As soon as the cows are milked, 
the udder should be washed with a vegeto-mineral lotionf, and 
dried with old linen. Upon this should be put alight layer of lead 
ointment with a small portion of some opiate. If a tumour 
appears at the extremity of a teat, a little bees’ wax should be 
applied, and, most especially, the greatest care should be taken 
never to leave any milk in the gland. 
If one or several teats are inflamed, the cow must be put into 
the stable, and emollient lotions and vapour baths applied. 
In general, these inflammations of the mammae are treated like 
those brought on by other causes. It is the same with the 
different accidents that are complicated with this epizootic. 
I will not conclude that which concerns cows, without refuting 
an error very generally diffused. It is said that the milk of the 
cow during the disease, and even for a long time after, is bad 
and unwholesome. It is not so. Before the attack of the epi- 
zootic, a pustular disease, almost similar, was prevalent in Bessin. 
According to several veterinary surgeons, it attacked men and 
* This ointment is compounded of the black poplar buds, poppy leaves, 
and lard. 
t The vegeto-mineral lotion is another term for diluted subacetate of lead. 
