THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 387 
in their mouths. Hay and turnips, with linseed cake, were given 
to those that were housed, and medical treatment adopted on the 
first appearance of the disease, consisting of lbj of salts, Ibj of 
treacle, and three ounces of sulphur, to full grown beasts, and 
smaller doses to younger cattle. The fat cattle suffered very little, 
but the milch cows more; and on account of the weather being 
exceedingly severe, and there not being an opportunity for shelter, 
the out-door cattle suffered most of all. The cows lost the greater 
part of their milk for awhile, but it returned with returning health. 
The udders and teats were sore. None of my young calves living 
upon the milk of the infected cows took the disorder. I adopted 
the plan of serving from the pail, and not allowing the calves to 
suck. Some had a scurfy eruption on different parts of their body 
and round the eyes ; but this is sometimes seen in young cattle. 
Those that were housed got over the disease best, but others ex- 
posed to the weather were generally left in a very low condition. 
When the epidemic first appeared, the greater part of my family 
discontinued the use of milk, cream, &c., but afterwards they 
took it as usual, and did not experience the least unpleasant or 
injurious consequence. 
According to Mr. Barrowby, of Baldersby, the disease began 
to appear among the hogs and cattle in the fold yard, and, in the 
first week in January 1841, it had spread to nearly all the sheep 
and cattle. It was distinguished by slavering in the cattle, lame- 
ness of the feet of pigs, and lameness and slavering in sheep. 
Nothing was done with them, except that they were pampered 
with every kind of food they could be induced to eat, and, in a 
few cases, gruel was administered. One of the cows calved twins 
while under treatment. She was very bad. Her milk ceased after 
the third day, and had not returned several months afterwards. 
The epidemic long remained among the pigs and sheep, and at 
length attacked the horses. 
J.W. Childers, Esq. M.P., of Cantley, states, that “ the 
epidemic first appeared in his stock about the middle of October, 
attacking the pigs first, then the cattle, and lastly the sheep. The 
disease commenced about five days after some of them had been 
brought along the public road from the market. The pigs were 
about eleven months old, and in good condition, having been fed 
with steamed mangle-wurzel and barley meal. The full grown 
cattle appeared to be more subject to the disease than the young- 
sters were. In the pigs and the sheep the feet were most im- 
plicated, and the mouth in cattle. The sheep were sometimes 
affected a second time, but not the cattle or pigs. The disease 
then assumed a mitigated form, and was confined entirely to the 
