THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
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When joints are opened from cuts or falling down, and synovia 
escapes, I cleanse the parts with a sponge and warm water, and 
lay on a pledget of tow, saturated with a liniment composed of 
equal parts of olive oil, oil of turpentine, and acetate of lead ; I 
then follow the plan laid down by that excellent practitioner, Mr. 
Thomas Turner. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC 
AMONG CATTLE. 
By Mr. John Tombs, V.S., Per shore. 
Jail. 23d, 1841. 
My dear Sir, — I NOW send you a few practical facts respecting 
the prevailing epidemic in cattle, &c., with my opinions drawn there- 
from. I have been brief on the occasion, thinking a minute detail 
would be superfluous, inasmuch as it would be going over trodden 
ground. 
Feb. and March, 1840. — Two barren heifers, bought at 
Tewkesbury Fair, were put in a yard with twenty-one milch cows. 
They were labouring under this malady, and gave it to the others, 
and these spread the disease to one bull and five feeding cows tied up 
in stalls adjoining the yard. Three sucking calves also had the 
disease, and twenty pigs in the yard. All recovered. 
When attacked, the cows were in a yard living on hay and 
straw : the weather cold and dry ; the situation three miles south 
of this town. 
This was the first appearance of the complaint in this neighbour- 
hood. The milk and butter were used as before, and with the 
same effect. 
March. — Nine milch cows and five fat cows, stationed half-a- 
mile apart, were attacked in the same village as the previous ones. 
The pigs in the same yard escaped. These cows never had com- 
munication with diseased animals, not even through the medium 
of the men who tended upon them. All got well. 
May. — Four heifers were brought home in a diseased state from 
Worcester Fair. They had been driven on the road with other 
diseased animals, and fed on hay before the attack. The pigs es- 
caped. They all recovered. The situation, two miles west of this 
town. 
June. — Six heifers got into a field where there were several 
others sick with the epidemic, and contracted the disease. They 
gave it to one bull, seventeen milch cows, six weaning calves, and 
some sheep. They were living entirely on grass. The situation, 
