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12. As I have stated, the disease generally reached its height 
about the third or fourth day, and the animals were dismissed 
about the seventh or eighth: lately, however, the disease assuming 
a much milder form, they have seldom been under treatment more 
than three or four days. 
13. Three hundred, as nearly as I can calculate. Two deaths. 
14. I cannot tell : many hundreds, if not thousands. Few 
deaths. 
15. Nothing particular, except that it became poorer or thinner, 
as it does often when cows are drying ; and this was the case in 
proportion as the quantity w’as diminished. 
16. I should say, just as such circumstances influence other dis- 
eases. Of course, old animals in low condition could not withstand 
it so well as younger ones in ordinary condition. Again, fat and 
heavy bullocks suffered more with their feet, and cows just calved 
or in full milk were more susceptible of fever, inflammation of the 
udder, &c. : I think the latter suffer most from the disease. 
17. Not that I could discover. 
18. When it first broke out here, it did for some little time ; but 
within the last month or two the animals have lost very little flesh, 
and have in almost all cases begun to thrive from the third or fourth 
day- 
19. Not in any case. The cow already mentioned as having 
had the disease in March, was then and for some time after alone ; 
but during the summer the owner bought in more stock, and these 
have lately been attacked, but although the cow has been con- 
stantly with them she has escaped. 
One word more as to treatment. If the weather is favourable, 
I do not remove the animals from the yard ; but I have generally 
shut them in moderately warm places. The diet, grass, hay, and 
bran, mixed with linseed cake powdered and scalded ; if very bad, 
with gruel. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC 
AMONG CATTLE. 
By Mr. Henry Lepper, V.S., Aylesbury. 
No. 1. Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire. 
No. 2. The soil is various, but principally a rich mould of a 
dark colour on a subsoil of stiff clay, particularly throughout the 
low part of the vale, which abounds with exceedingly rich pasture, 
probably surpassed by none in this our great agricultural country. 
