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THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
seven miles west of this town, and the weather warm. The milk 
thrown away. All recovered. The pigs escaped. 
AUGUST. — One milking cow, bought of a dealer who had in his 
possession other cows ill with the same complaint, gave it to thirteen 
other milking cows. From these thirty-four feeding cows and hei- 
fers contracted the disease, all living on grass at the time of the 
attack. The sheep in the same fields were not infected. All re- 
covered. The milk was used as before, and with the same effect. 
The situation the same as the May cases. 
December. — Seven young oxen, eleven cows in calf, living on 
barley-straw, were attacked. They had never been near any dis- 
eased animals, nor the men who fed them. The weather was cold 
and frosty : situation two miles and a half south-east of this town. 
All recovered. 
Jan. 1841. — Two cows in an open field, living on hay and grass, 
were affected with this complaint. They were housed, and commu- 
nicated it to five milking-cows tied up in a shed some distance from 
them. The same cowherd fed them all. All got well. The milk 
was all sold to and used by the inhabitants of this town, in tea and 
for puddings, with no untoward event. 
All these cases were treated by me, with many more, perhaps 
altogether very nearly two hundred oxen, cows, and calves, not 
including pigs or sheep. The disease was very prevalent in this 
neighbourhood in December last, among oxen, cows, pigs, and 
sheep ; and in addition to my patients, many more than a hundred 
cows had it. They were treated by the owners. A sol. of alum and 
vinegar applied to their tongues; nitre, sulphur, and Epsom salts 
given internally, and a few were bled. They all did well. The ma- 
jority of these animals never had communication with diseased ones, 
but were attacked in different localities. The weather cold and 
frosty. 
The feeding-cattle were living at the time of attack on oil-cake, 
turnips, flour, and hay ; and the store ones on hay and straw. 
As to the soil and climate, I need only say that the disease made 
its appearance all around this town, within a circuit of seven miles, 
part of which is in the vale of Evesham. Some were attacked in 
the grass fields, others in stalls, and many in the straw yards. In 
some localities the soil was rich and sandy, in others there was a 
red loamy soil. Some were on a rich and others on a cold clay. 
I shall now briefly reply to some of your questions, beginning 
at the 
6/A. I have only one remark to make about this question : a 
healthy ox travelled along a road where diseased cows had pre- 
viously walked. In three days after, the same disease had firm 
hold of him. 
