576 THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
other parts of the farm, and which extended with more or less 
virulence to all kinds of stock kept on a breeding farm, except the 
cart-horses. His sheep had been on the farm with the other 
stock, but there was no chance of being affected by others. It 
was the same with young and full grown cattle. The symptoms 
were, excessive fever in the mouth, with lameness, and frequent 
gathering in the feet. A great number, both among sheep and 
cattle, were infected, and many of them a second time, but with 
less virulence. 
Salt and water was given to the sheep, and their feet well 
rubbed with tar. This did not appear to have much effect. 
Nothing more was done than to keep the feet as well cleansed as the 
land will permit, and occasionally to apply the sheep ointment. He 
had never sustained any loss by death, except two or three small 
pigs. He had often seen the udder and the milk much dimin- 
ished, and thrown away for ten days or a fortnight ; but nothing 
of a more serious character. He had, at the time when this was 
written, a lot of heifers : some had calved, and some not; but they 
were all more or less affected, and a very distressing sight it was, 
being much wasted in flesh, and the calves also ill. One heifer 
was exceedingly constipated. He gave two or three strong 
purgatives. A calf was dropped, and, three days afterwards the 
disease appeared. When heifers recover from mild or virulent 
attacks, they are usually languid and weak for a considerable 
period. 
The cattle of George Bourne, Esq., of Hocton, near Spilsby, 
were attacked by the epidemic in May 1840.. He was driving some 
half-bred oxen from the place where they had been tied in stalls 
all the winter. The weather was very hot, and the roads freshly 
laid at that time. They were kept apart from the others, and no 
other cattle had the diseases. His were the first beasts that were 
attacked in that neighbourhood. They were four years old. 
Before they reached the termination of their journey they were 
crippled in all their feet, and had sore mouths. They were kept 
in a sheltered grass close, and were placed under the care of Mr. 
Clayworth, V.S., of Spilsby. Not an animal, however — sheep 
or cattle — was lost, nor any of the horses or cows seriously ill. 
Mr. Charles Hill, of Winceley, near Horncastle, living on 
a hilly ground. A heifer calf was bought by him, and soon ex- 
hibited symptoms of the prevalent disease. It spread among the 
cattle and sheep, and the mouths and feet became diseased. Hay 
and straw and linseed cake were given, but no animals were lost. 
No disease occurred to the horses, although they fed with the 
