5S0 THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. 
repeated every second day. The other eighty had no medicine, 
and recovered much quicker. Generally speaking, the disease 
was severe in proportion to the age of the beast. Not one of his 
whole stock was lost. 
The milk, which in most of them was diminished in quantity, 
returned, but not in its full quantity. Not one, however, be- 
came quite dry. 
Abortion was sadly frequent. Out of nineteen cows, five 
aborted at about nineteen weeks. The nostrils and mouths of the 
calves were occasionally very sore. 
Immediately after the disease the animals appeared somewhat 
debilitated, but they afterwards rapidly improved in condition. 
The epidemic disappeared as to cattle in September, but con- 
tinued occasionally to shew itself through December. 
The reason why he had so many bad in so short a time was that 
he turned them together for the purpose of their having it, and 
becoming stronger for winter. He should do this again if it be- 
came general next year, as his beasts are all strong and healthy at 
this time. 
Mr. Johnson Snow, Evendon, states that it appeared in 
July 1840, beginning with an aged bull, and running through the 
whole of his feeding stock. He had at the same time thirteen 
heifers in an adjoining field, only parted from each other by 
an iron fence, and frequently getting together, not one of which 
caught the epidemic. It generally began in his own farm and 
on those of his neighbours when the wind was in the east. 
None of them had been outside his gates, but were in good con- 
dition, and fully grown. They were affected in the mouth and 
feet, and in both at the same time. Three or four had it a 
second time, but under a mitigated form. The first attack was 
always the severest. 
As soon as he found any one affected he removed him from the 
pasture, and gave him salts, sulphur, linseed oil, and ginger, 
mixed with oatmeal gruel. Not one died. The quantity of milk 
was greatly diminished, even when the udder did not appear 
to be affected. The calves, when weaning, were affected at 
all ages, and the whole of the calves when sucking infected cows. 
In the next month this subject will be resumed, and we shall 
be thankful to receive any account of the epidemic in 1840, or 
that which is at present so destructive. The epidemic now 
raging, and so strangely destructive, deserves the most serious 
consideration. 
