THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &C. 577 
cattle during the whole of the time. The sheep continued lame 
for a considerable period after the cattle were all well. 
Mr. W. T. A. Bentley, of Ciay Bridge, near Lincoln, says that 
the disease broke out among his cattle on the 28th of September 
1840. The fat stock were first affected, but after this it ex- 
tended to the milch cows. They had not been out of the field, 
which is at some distance from any public road. They were nearly 
fat, and from three and a half to four years old. It did not affect 
any of the young stock. This is not a common circumstance. 
It commenced with discharge from the mouth, accompanied by 
a peculiar noise, and in the course of four or five hours lameness 
ensued. In three cases it appeared a second time. The first 
attack of the disease was particularly severe. 
He had the animals housed, and gave to each half a pound of 
salt, a quarter of a pound of sulphur, one ounce of carbonate of 
soda, and a table-spoonful of turpentine. This was generally 
repeated on the third day. Their food consisted of hay and 
a small quantity of oil-cake. They generally recovered in four 
or five days. He had twenty-six affected ; but they usually 
began to be better in four or five days — a remarkable instance of 
speedy recovery. In one instance abortion occurred. The milk 
was reduced to three-fourths of its natural quantity. They were 
all considerably reduced in condition. 
In order to form some judgment of the effect of medical treat- 
ment, he left one of them out of doors. At the end of a month 
this animal was so reduced that he was compelled to take it up, 
and, although it had been allowed twelve pounds of oil-cake per 
day, besides Swedes and hay, it has scarcely yet recovered its 
former condition, and — the beginning of November — continues 
to be affected with slight lameness. 
Francis Robinson, Esq., of Frampton, near Boston, says 
that the disease first appeared in two beasts which he bought on 
April 24, 1840. They were ill of the complaint as soon as he got 
them home. This was probably caused by the hot and dry 
weather which then prevailed. It was a long time before they 
recovered. The sheep in the same pasture were not affected. 
The feet were first affected, and then the mouth. It became 
much more serious in the sheep than the cattle. None were 
affected a second time. 
Physic was always administered, with a saline wash for the 
mouth : the feet were slightly pared, and dressed with sulphate 
of copper, alum and vinegar, or the common sheep salve. Very 
few died. 
