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The next stock I had to attend belonged to my brother-in-law, 
Mr. T. Richardson, consisting of about forty cattle. Most of 
them had the disease in a mild form, and by a timely dose of 
medicine and a few dressings quickly got better. A few of them, 
nevertheless, were neglected, because he thought they would 
mend of themselves. These, however, were, generally speaking, 
longer in getting free of the disease, and one in particular, that 
had no medicine given to her, had the disease under a severe 
typhoid form, getting so weak that she was unable to rise with- 
out assistance. The udder at the same time assumed a severe 
form of garget ; but by the use of tonics, &c. inwardly, and the 
ointment of the hydriodate of potash being applied to the udder, 
she by degrees got better. 
One beast, a yearling bull, had it in a most aggravated fqrm, 
both in the mouth and feet, and, in spite of our best treatment, 
cast all the horny part of his hoofs, and was a much longer time 
in getting well. The pigs on this farm were all similarly affected, 
most of them casting their hoofs. 
In another farming stock which I attended similar cases were 
observed, and by using the above treatment similar results were 
produced. After these, I think I need not detail more cases, for 
they mostly correspond with the others. Although I have at- 
tended a great many more patients I have not had one death. 
Remarks . — As to the contagiousness or non-contagiousness of 
the disease, it is not for me to decide; but this I know, that 
the first case I attended in the second farmer’s stock was in the 
fold or yard adjoining the dwelling-house, and my brother-in-law, 
being anxious to keep as long clear of the disease as possible, 
had her removed from among the other stock into an open shed 
outside the buildings, where she was treated accordingly. He 
having another farm building adjoining, the beasts were, perhaps, 
two hundred yards apart. His greatest wish was to keep the 
disease from that place. Although the beasts in question had 
no nearer communication with each other than the distance men- 
tioned, yet the pestilence shewed itself there. Thence it returned 
to the contrary side of the first fold, and after that to the first 
affected cowhouse, thence to the one that until now had kept 
clear, and finally finishing its career across the road at the other 
fold. 
At a somewhat greater distance was another dairy. Three 
cows became affected, and suffered severely, lying by themselves, 
and upon an elevated situation. Each of them had a calf. Before 
the attack each calf was allowed twice a-day to partake of as 
much of its mother’s milk as would suffice for a meal, yet none 
of them shewed symptoms of the disease to the very time they 
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