THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 383 
commencement of the disease, and three afterwards. The ap- 
pearances after death were extreme lowness of condition, and 
bloodless appearance of the heart and liver, and other viscera. 
Forty out of the 113 that were left looked remarkably well ; forty- 
seven were sold, and the remaining twenty-six were very fair to 
look at. On the whole, Mr. Tulson had no cause to complain. 
Possibly the turpentine might have been partly or altogether 
avoided, a more efficacious dressing for the mouth might have 
been selected, and the common salt might have yielded to the 
sulphate of magnesia. We have no right, however, to find fault. 
Mr. Smith, of Bridlington, in the neighbourhood of Flambo- 
rough-head, lives on a somewhat flat, and dry, and open country, 
but with some small plantations. The soil various— the upper 
stratum calcareous — the substrata chalk and gravel, and lime- 
stone and clay. No marshes. 
His flock was one of the first affected. On the 27th November, 
1840, the disease suddenly broke out, including wether shear- 
lands and draught ewes, gimmer shearlings and rams. In the 
space of ten days it extended to the wether and tup hogs, and, in 
all, 280 were infected. 
Two hundred ewes, eighty gimmer hogs, and forty lambs that 
had been let out for the season, did not shew any symptom of 
having taken the disease, although the ewes and gimmers fol- 
lowed the feeding sheep, and the forty rams were likewise in the 
same field. The disease was also partially spreading to the 
cows. The disease had not infected or appeared in any flock 
within two miles of the place. 
The animals were out of doors when they were first taken. 
They had been fattening on seeds in the summer, and white 
turnips in the autumn. The wethers and gimmers were about 
nineteen months old — the ewes from two to five years — the rams 
from two to six years old — and the tups and wether hogs eight 
months old. [We make no apology for this detailed account. It 
is a truly scientific man whose proceedings we are describing, and 
who gives a plain and intelligible answer to every question.] 
The milch cows were the only cattle affected. The disease first 
appeared by their lips and mouths being blistered, the tongue 
swollen, and a copious discharge of saliva. The above symp- 
toms were always the first indications of their being affected. 
They were diseased in both the mouth and feet, but in their feet 
first. It was most general among the sheep, and in the cows the 
mouth only was affected. 
There are many cases of sheep having been affected a second, 
