THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 571 
Mr. Henry Grantham, of Glandford Bridge, states that 
when the epidemic first appeared on his farm only one ox was 
affected by it, in the first week in September- There were three 
other beasts in the same field, none of which had it. The dis- 
ease returned in the beginning of November, and every beast, 
with the exception of one, was affected. They were then taken 
into a strawyard, and all the pigs caught the distemper. Three 
of them died. When the disease appeared the second time, the 
cows had been driven into the village to milk, and might have 
met with other cattle. They first began to slaver. Then the 
tongue swelled, and the whole of the mouth and frequently 
the throat became so sore that a portion of the skin came off. 
None of his cattle had sore feet, but the sheep were exceedingly 
bad in their feet, and continued to be so. 
When the beasts were ill and could not eat, they were daily 
fed with gruel made with powdered linseed cake. Each had also 
a dose of aperient medicine. None of them died. 
Nine of the milk cows had the distemper, and a great many 
of the cattle belonging to the cottagers. A calf that sucked 
an infected cow had the disease. His cattle were not much re- 
duced ; but this he attributed to the care which he took of them, 
and feeding them so frequently with gruel. 
Mr. John West, of Melton Ross, near Glandford Bridge, 
had his cattle first attacked after they came into the fold in 
November, and it afterwards extended to every other kind of stock. 
He bought a hundred head of horned cattle at Caistor Michael- 
mas fair, which had been travelling for a fortnight before, and 
had no symptoms of the epidemic until a month afterwards. 
They had been kept on straw for a fortnight prior to the attack. 
Both cattle and sheep were affected. The horned cattle were 
not in the least diseased in the feet, but some of the sheep were 
in worse condition than when they were placed on turnips at 
Michaelmas. None of them have been affected a second time. 
The udders of the cows were soon diseased, and the milk could 
not be used for a month. 
The horned cattle were all spotted over like leopards after the 
complaint left them. They were not much reduced, but the 
sheep suffered greatly in their feet. Mr. West says, “ We are 
about to begin the lambing season, and the ewes are every day 
breaking down. The consequence of this, I fear, will be a small 
show of lambs, and great losses in the ewes. 
The wool was bad in quality, and short in quantity. 
There were several horses ill, but that seemed to be the com- 
mon distemper that is often prevalent among horses at this 
