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mals that travelled to fairs or markets; by which it was intro- 
duced into premises and farms heretofore exempt, and thus be- 
came disseminated in healthy districts. Fever was increased by 
fatigue in travelling. 
The feet became acutely inflamed, causing the hoofs to shed or 
exfoliate, and many animals were in consequence slaughtered on 
the roads. 
Young animals appeared to be more exempt from attacks than 
the full grown; but in comparing the number affected, it was 
more fatal, and often more speedily so, in them than in the adult 
animals. The house and exposed stock of all ages and condi- 
tions were equally subject to attacks from general causes. «ln 
some cases, supposed to arise from infection or contagion, the 
symptoms appeared as early as the second day ; in others several 
weeks elapsed after exposure to infection before they made their 
appearance. 
One correspondent states that himself and all his family and 
domestics were attacked on the lips and in the mouth in conse- 
quence of using the milk of his diseased cows ; and that a foal 
living with them had an attack of farcy and glanders, of which 
it died.* 
The disease generally commenced in the mouths of bullocks, 
cows, and calves, by the appearance of blisters and ulcers on the 
tongue, and sore throats in some ; the feet at the same time, or 
very soon after, became ulcerated, as also the palate, lips, and 
nose. It was accompanied by rigors or chills, succeeded by 
feverish heat. The noses and feet of pigs were attacked, but the 
feet only of sheep, except in a few instances in which the mouths 
were affected, as in cattle. 
In dairy- cows the teats became affected with pustules and 
ulcers at the same time as the mouth, the udders subsequently 
became inflamed and tumefied ; and abscesses were formed, ter- 
minating frequently in a total loss of milk, and, in less severe 
cases, in a diminution of quantity. 
The pregnant or in-calf cows and barren cows were less vio- 
lently affected, but cows having recently calved suffered most, 
more especially in the udders, from the formation of tumours and 
milk abscesses, constituting the disease commonly called garget ; 
abscesses and ulcers also were formed in various parts of the 
* The following circumstance was related to me by the dairyman of a large 
farm in Dorsetshire : — The smell of fresh blood often affects cows in a straw- 
yard, making them appear as if frantic. After milking the diseased cows 
the dairyman overturned the pail in the straw-yard ; the cows were greatly 
excited in the same manner smelling at it, and fighting to keep each other 
away from the spot where the diseased milk lay. — C. Lemon. 
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