384 THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
and even a third time, with augmented severity. This was 
observed in the present instance in fifty among the fat sheep, and 
twenty among the hogs, and in both with considerable severity. 
The animals were fed with cut turnips and a portion of hay. 
One ounce and a half of common salt was given to each aged sheep, 
and an ounce to each hog. Some of them had a second dose. 
The salt was dried and pounded somewhat small, and given to 
each sheep in that state. The cows had, each of them, an 
opening drink, consisting of Epsom salts and sulphur. None of 
them. died. 
The milk diminished, but the udders were not affected. The 
milk soon afterwards returned in full stream. The cows were 
attacked a few days after calving, but those in calf escaped, 
although housed together. The ewes in lamb shewed no dispo- 
sition to abort. Abortion, in some flocks, prevailed to a great 
extent ; but all his animals were perfectly free from it. Both 
the cows and sheep, more or less, lost their condition, but in 
sheep those shrunk the most where the attack was most severe. 
They ate but little for the first two or three days, owing, no 
doubt, to the excessive inflammation in their feet. After this 
subsided the appetite returned. In no instance was the mouth 
affected a second time. 
On February the 16th Mr. Smith parted with all the fat 
sheep, and with them apparently the disease. The wether hogs 
shewed no symptoms of the epidemic for three weeks previous to 
their being sold. 
Mr. Shawe, of Brantingham Hall, in the East Riding, 
early in November 1840, purchased six in-calf galloway heifers 
from a jobber near Thirsk ; and as the epidemic was raging at the 
time, these animals were placed in a wheat-stubble field by them- 
selves, and at a disance from any other cattle or sheep. One of 
the heifers arrived with the disease upon her ; — the others all took 
it in three days, being attacked severely both in their mouths and 
feet. Two of them calved dead calves, both of which were af- 
fected by the disease. 
As these heifers were much confined in their bowels, three 
doses of aperient medicine, consisting of Epsom salts and sul- 
phur, were given to each, and also plenty of turnips; but they 
were exposed to all the cold wet weather of November on a bare 
stubble, without shed or even a tree to shelter them, as Mr. 
Shawe did not dare to move them for fear of infecting his other 
cattle or sheep. They all recovered by the beginning of Decem- 
ber, and the disease did not spread among his other cattle, al- 
