THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 575 
the mouth — the back forming the segment of a circle, and there 
being lameness in both feet. It is very difficult for a non-medi- 
cal person to distinguish between a second attack of disease and 
a relapse from an advanced state of recovery ; but Mr. Harries 
imagines that there were many cases of sheep in his flock being 
affected a second time, and that with unusual severity. Not 
one of the cattle, however, exhibited this. 
The patients were fed on turnips, or turnips and linseed cake, 
but no medicine was given, no good effect from it being observed 
in other cases. He applied tar to the feet, but, as it seemed to in- 
crease the inflammation, he did not continue it. No beast died, 
but about forty sheep out of a thousand were lost. They died 
very lean, but not generally discoloured. In some few cases, the 
matter was corrupted and black almost before the carcass was 
cold, and in such cases it was very offensive when skinned*. 
The cows had the disease in a mitigated form. For some 
time the milk diminished, or could not be used ; but, in about 
ten days, the milk was good, and almost as plentiful as before. 
A flock of ewes in lamb, that were sent to turnips on the farm, 
suffered very considerably from abortion. 
From mild attacks, the animals were only in a little degree 
the worse after recovery, but it was different in virulent cases. 
Mr. Harries had sixty feeding sheep that he feared would never 
become sound again, so he sent them to market by steam. They 
had lost about twelve or fourteen pounds each, and were still losing. 
At the writing of this, Feb. 22, 1841, it still rages at Thor- 
ganby, as violently as ever. At Elkington it has disappeared, 
leaving many sheep very lame. The beasts at Thorganby re- 
covered soon after Christmas. The few cows at Elkington, 
giving milk, have suffered, and still suffer much. Their udders 
inflame, and suppurate, and break, and spoil them for many 
weeks, so far as milking is concernedf- 
Two cases from Spilsbury and its neighbourhood are consider- 
ably interesting. 
The first belongs to Mr. W. B, Wingate, of Hareby, near 
Bolingbroke. At the latter end of August 1841 the disease ap- 
peared among the shearling ewes that had been removed from 
* I cannot but think that a very considerable number of these sheep might 
have been saved had proper means been adopted. One out of twenty-five 
are a great many to lose. His land must be very bad, and his sheep con- 
siderably neglected, or very faulty management pursued, if the mortality is 
so great as this. — Y. 
t We are still more convinced that there is too much of the old school in 
Mr. Harries’s treatment, and that the judicious management of proper medi- 
cines and dressings would effect some considerable change. — Y. 
