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THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
tively affirm that they brought the disease to their stock by 
purchasing heifers, many of which were bought at the fairs at 
Leighton Buzzard, in Bedfordshire, and at Winslow, in Bucking- 
hamshire. Nearly the whole of the beasts that were purchased at 
Bristol fair, in the month of April last, either came home with the 
disease on them, or fell ill with it in a very few days after their 
being safe in the possession of their new owners. There are 
many instances on record which, I think, go a great way to prove 
that it is contagious. I will name Mr. Denchfield, of Lodge Hill 
farm, in the parish of Waddesden, who had about forty cattle with 
the disease in May last : the wind at that time was continually 
from the east, north-east, or south-east. On the windward of the 
affected cows, in an adjoining field, were eight other cows heavy 
in calf. Mr. D. remarked that there was something very singular 
about this, inasmuch as those cows escaped the disease for nearly 
a fortnight after the whole of his other cattle had it. As soon, 
however, as they commenced calving, and, for the convenience of 
being milked were regularly taken to the places to which the sick 
had been removed, the} 7 as regularly became diseased from the 
third to the fifth day after visiting their new quarters. To go back 
to numbers, twelve or fourteen persons out of the fifty-two admit 
the probability of their cattle having travelled on the road after dis- 
eased animals. The remainder cannot account in any way how 
their beasts became affected. 
No. 9. A watery eye ; slight erection of the hair ; horns and 
feet alternately hot and cold (the latter most frequent). Pulse a 
little accelerated, about 70 or 75 ; continual shifting of the limbs, 
and shaking of the feet as though attempting to rid them of some 
foreign body. 
No. 10. In the course of a few hours the cutis is raised in the 
form of vesicles , at the point and dorsum of the tongue, on the 
gum of the upper jaw, at that part which approximates to the inci- 
sors of the lower jaw, around the alae of the nose, and at the point; 
on the sides, and at the puncta of the papillae, raising the whole of 
that portion of dense cutis which forms the connecting medium. 
There is a constant flow of saliva; inability to feed, and disinclina- 
tion to rise. The secretion of the milk is diminished, and, in some 
cases, entirely suspended. The bowels variously affected : in some 
cases they are relaxed, in others constipated, and in many they 
are in their natural state, the faeces being occasionally of rather a 
darker colour. 
The blisters soon burst, and sloughing commences, generally, in 
in the mouth first, which is completed on the second or third day 
of its attack. On or about the third day the parts are less 
tender; the animal begins feeding, particularly if supplied with 
