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cine by the farmers or their servants ; and, particularly, by their 
keeping up the head of the animal while he was in the act of 
coughing. Instances of this are not unfrequent. Two died be- 
tween the third and fourth week, from attacks of ascites. Three 
died of bronchial inflammation, from the want of care in giving 
medicine, as above stated ; and five died of exhaustion, consequent 
on typhus fever, extensive abscesses, & c. 
No. 14. I suppose about three thousand; certainly, quite as 
many, taking those included in a circle of about nine miles from 
the town of Aylesbury. The loss 1 imagine to be less than two 
per cent. As the disease progressed, it, like all other epi- 
demic or epizootic diseases, lost, to a certian extent, its severe 
characters, particularly in the warm and dry summer and autumn 
season, at which time many hundreds recovered with little or no 
treatment. Since, however, the wet season commenced, it has 
been a little more severe. Lameness is more frequent and trouble- 
some in wet weather than in dry, in consequence of dirt insinuat- 
ing itself between the old separating sole and the newly formed 
one. I also find moisture to the feet conducive to separation as 
well also as to suppuration. 
No. 15. The milk, although diminished in quantity to an 
alarming extent as concerns the dairyman, is certainly not de- 
teriorated in quality. We may almost say that it is improved. 
It has a richer taste, and yields more cream and butter in a given 
quantity. Its chemical property I am not able to speak of ; but 
it seems that the greater falling off is in its aqueous portion. 
No. 16. The disease was not influenced either by age, sex, or 
condition. Any thing which tended to debilitate the system, such 
as crowding them in ill-ventilated situations, long drifts, standing 
in fairs or markets, See., appeared to predispose them more readily 
to take on the disease. 
No. 17. None whatever. 
No. 18. It was remarked, that those animals which quickly 
recovered (as did the great majority of them) were improved in 
their condition, assuming a healthy appearance, and readily accu- 
mulating fat. The major part of the cows giving milk did not 
again secrete their former liberal quantity, nor will they until they 
have yielded another calf. 
Those beasts that have lately been attacked do not so readily 
resume their previous healthy appearance as did others in the 
warm and dry season. 
No. 19. In no instance have I observed the same animal visited 
a second time with the disease. I have frequently heard of their 
being attacked a second time, but on making strict inquiry it has 
invariably been erroneous. 
