154 THE EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE, SHEEP, AND PIGS. 
after it was observed, and it usually terminated in about five or 
six days afterwards. 
13. I had about 100 cases under my immediate care, but a con- 
siderably greater number were treated in the manner I have de- 
scribed in consequence of a “ paper” of mine which was printed 
in the leading newspapers of the county, describing the symptoms 
and the method to be adopted in order to produce a recovery. I 
did not lose a single patient myself, but I heard of several cows 
which were pregnant dying from the disease. 
I confess that I was one of those who wrote for the public on 
the Epidemic, but I believe, that, instead of losing any practice 
by doing so, I increased it. Long before this disease was ob- 
served in Cornwall, Professor Sewell’s paper on the “ Prevailing 
Epidemic” had been widely circulated by the different members 
of the English Agricultural Society, and by the different agricul- 
tural weekly and monthly publications; so that, by publishing a 
“ report” of my own, I, in some measure, attracted the attention 
of all those whose cattle were diseased, and became employed in 
consequence by many who would otherwise have sent for the 
village blacksmith, or have doctored their animals themselves. 
14. I cannot tell ; I should think a great many hundred. The 
disease has become for several weeks much milder; and many a 
farmer has cured his cattle and sheep by administering doses of 
salt water from the briny ocean. 
15. Diminished in quantity — but there were very few persons 
found hardy enough to give the milk even to their pigs, much less 
to consume it themselves, although I told them to the contrary. 
16. The disease was not influenced either by age, strength, or 
sex : the fat ones suffered the most in their feet, and pregnant 
cows also suffered severely. 
17. None whatever. 
18. Generally speaking, the animals quickly recovered their 
strength and condition. 
19. I have never met with a case in which the disease appeared 
a second time in the same individual. 
20. I would add, that the disease has again nearly left the 
county. 
