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cows get. well sooner ; the milk is sooner secreted, and increased in 
quantity ; and these are circumstances of great importance to the 
dairyman, and in the end prove economical not only to the pro- 
prietor of milch cows, but to the owners of fat cattle and store 
stock. 
19th . — I have made repeated inquiries amongst graziers, farmers, 
and dealers, but cannot learn whether any beast has had the dis- 
ease a second time. I should think a relapse must be of exceed- 
ingly rare occurrence. 
I will recite a case where this question has been well put to the 
test : — A bull, that had the epidemic last spring, w r as tied up in a 
shed the whole of the summer, and principally fed on hay and grass 
that cows would not eat when affected with this disease. It had 
been in their mouths at the height of disease, and rejected again 
and again, half masticated and saturated with saliva and the con- 
tents of the vesicles in the mouth. He ate it with avidity, and it 
did not injure him at all. He belonged to a dealer. 
I can say nothing about the post-mortem appearances, not hav- 
ing seen an animal affected with this complaint after death. I 
have been informed, from good authority, that pigs, when killed 
and eaten, as all fat ones are as soon as they are perceived to 
have this complaint — I certainly could not relish the bacon — have 
patches of inflammation on the skin of the belly, and on the outer 
coat of the stomach and intestines : likewise on the villous coats 
of each. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC 
AMONG CATTLE. 
By Mr. Thomas Darby, V.S., of Louth. 
In answer to your circular, I reply that as the disease still exists 
in this neighbourhood (Jan. 31st), I thought I had best wait awhile. 
As T am situated I have the marshes and sea to the east, and the 
Lincolnshire Wolds west and south. The soil and pasture are 
various. Of the first beasts that I attended I know nothing of 
their previous feeding. 
The earliest appearance of the epidemic in this neighbourhood 
was about the middle of last April. The first lot of patients that 
I attended was twelve cows, belonging to W. Loft, Esq., of Grain- 
thorpe, that had been bought of a jobber a few days before, at 
Caistor Fair. They appeared to be quite well until about two days 
after they got to their new home ; they then began to foam at the 
mouth, and I was sent for, the messenger saying that he was 
