390 THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &C. 
be highly advantageous to them, and, as I before remarked, a 
little tenderness of the feet on hard ground is all I can perceive 
of the effects of the disease. 
Pigs I have found very difficult to get medicine into. The 
best purgative is a few grains of calomel in their food, according 
to the size of the animal.” 
We will conclude our account of the West Riding of Yorkshire 
with the account which Mr. Hall, the steward of Earl Spencer, 
gives of this epidemic among cattle and other stock. It is 
an exceedingly valuable document. It properly belongs to the 
county of Nottingham ; but it forms an excellent winding-up to 
the history of the epidemic in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 
the very borders of which it is situated. 
Mr. Hall states, that “ the country in the neighbourhood of 
Wiseton is generally flat; but the whole farm is bounded on the 
north by a range of inconsiderable hills. The Wiseton farm is 
well sheltered, with numerous minute springs, and thickly 
wooded. It has an extremely varied surface soil, with a generally 
retentive subsoil, no river of any importance, but a small one 
forming the western boundary of the farm. 
When the epidemic first appeared the weather was rainy and 
very damp. There had been no communication of any kind 
with cattle that might have been diseased at the time, nor had 
any animals lately travelled or been herded in the neighbour- 
hood. The cattle that were first attacked by the epidemic were 
at pasture : their condition was good, and they were grazing on 
after-math, and were from one to two years old. The disease 
was at first confined to these yearling cattle. 
The only decided symptom of disease among them was a very 
greatly increased secretion of saliva from the mouth, and blisters 
appearing on the tongue and palate on the succeeding day. 
There was no reason to suppose that there was any infection in 
the business. 
The disease appeared or rather commenced in the mouth — 
the lameness was more the result of disease, for the mouth was, 
generally speaking, nearly well before the leet were much 
affected. 
The medical treatment of these animals was very trifling. As 
soon as the increased flow of saliva was observed in any of the 
cattle they were immediately, though quietly, driven to a dry 
yard, with sheds and stabling, at one extremity of the farm. 
Great care was observed in bringing them to this place to avoid 
any contact with the healthy portion of the herd, and equal 
caution was used in preventing those that were in attendance on 
