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THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
pulse is not disturbed, for lassitude soon supervenes. Slight cos- 
tiveness being an invariable concomitant, I exhibit aperient medi- 
cines until the bowels are freely relieved. When this object has 
been accomplished, I have recourse to the vegetable tonics. I order 
the mouth and feet to be washed with astringents and disinfectants 
as long as necessary, or until the reparative process commences in 
the abraded parts. 
12/4. — From ten days to a fortnight, or longer. 
13/4. — Previously answered. All recovered. 
15/4. — None that I can ascertain. If the disease is communi- 
cated to the human subject or animals through the medium of the 
milk, I think that it is where the teats are ulcerated. I omitted 
to mention that vesicles and abrasions often form on the nipples of 
milch cows : the matter drops from the sores into the milk pail, 
which matter may produce the disease under consideration, in the 
human subject and other animals, by inoculation. In order to 
guard against this, I recommend a piece of wash leather, cut in the 
shape of an inverted bell, and made to fit and put on the teats dur- 
ing the process of milking; the milk pail to be held out some dis- 
tance from the maminm, in order to prevent the matter dropping 
into the milk, should any make its way through the leather. The 
teats are to be stripped. 
16/4. — Neither condition nor age influence the progress of the 
disease. 
17/4. — I have met with many cases of garget — inflamed udders — 
in this district, commonly called “ white waters,” after recovering 
from this disease ; and some have proved very troublesome cases. 
These affections seem to me to be connected with the blain, or what- 
ever people think proper to call this disease. 
18/4. — The greatest number improve, thrive, and get on remark- 
ably well after this disease. If, however, the lameness is pro- 
tracted, they do not. Another exception is, where garget takes 
place after the other symptoms have disappeared. 
The animals that are medically treated thrive faster than those 
that are left entirely to nature, although some people say that the 
beasts which are not doctored do best. The fact is, that it is only 
the worst cases that generally come under the management of the 
veterinary surgeon. When this disease first broke out in this 
neighbourhood there were some heifers in a field diseased : they 
had no assistance rendered them ; some became emaciated, and two 
or three died. Those that did not die were a long time rallying. 
Other heifers in the same village, belonging to another person, had 
it. They were professionally treated by me, were well nursed, 
soon recovered, and afterwards improved amazingly in condition. 
1 am convinced that if medical assistance is early resorted to, the 
