1S8 THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
hocks, and among the flexor tendons, but for the most part, if 
not wholly, these have been neglected cases. There are more 
dying now — January — in this county than at any other time 
since the disease first appeared ; but they are newly-bought 
beasts, that travelled day after day in the late frost, their feet 
cut and worn to the bone by the sharp and hard roads — their 
constitutions undermined by pain, want of food, and rest; and 
their muscles inflamed by extraordinary exertion to save their 
feet. Many of these are distressing cases. In several we have 
had to take out the toes of the coffin bones, and in others there 
were large effusions of thin brown foetid pus under the skin over 
the sacrum, pelvis, and thighs ; and when these tumours are 
opened, large pieces of mortified muscles, the size of a man’s 
hand, have been extracted. Of course these have been mur- 
dered by travelling when ill ; and, if you will excuse the Irish 
bull, these cows must many of them die. 
15. — The milk is generally diminished in quantity and quality, 
frequently ropy, and like curds and whey. Too often the secretion 
is of a dark brown colour, and foetid ; and the udders of many 
cows will be permanently injured. 
16. — We have not found the age of the animal, except in the 
very young calf, the sucking calf, influence the complaint. The 
disease is generally more favourable in an animal of good than of 
bad condition. 
17. — We have seldom or never seen it have any connexion 
with other diseases, except as previously stated. 
18. — For the most part, if the beast was well kept, it throve 
the better for having had the disease. 
19. — We have not seen a case of the same animal having the 
disease twice. We have seen many instances of diseased ani- 
mals turned with others that had recovered, and recovered ani- 
mals turned with diseased ones, but we have not known the 
disease to return. We would not say no animal can have it 
twice. 
A gentleman, upon whose intelligence and judgment we can 
rely, told us that he had a cow which had the disease twice. 
She perfectly recovered from the first attack, remained well for 
months, and then became ill a second time. He gave her medicine, 
and dressed her mouth himself both times, and the ulceration was 
as great on the second attack as the first. We have been fre- 
quently sent for to single cases, and to herds, which were said to 
be attacked a second time ; but always found the owners mis- 
taken. Indeed, for some months, every thing was distemper 
with some people. We have made some calls on purpose to 
ascertain the truth of such reports, but have found them to be 
