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a rheumatic stiffness, and soreness of the whole frame — a pain- 
ful and stiff unwilling gait, with much shaking of the feet. In a 
few hours they began to shuffle about in the stall — about twelve 
hours after this champing of the mouth appeared with sucking 
of the lips, a ropy, tenacious, slimy saliva constantly pouring 
from the mouth — perhaps, in another twelve hours the disease 
was fully established. There were some variations in different 
animals ; but in eight out of ten, the progress was as I have 
described, the feet being affected before the mouth. 
10. After the above symptoms, the posterior portion of the 
heels begin to look very red with inflammation between the cleft 
of the feet, and all round the coronets. In twenty- four hours 
there was separation of the integuments and ulceration, the 
parts being very tender and painful. Soon after, or already, vesi- 
cles appeared on the upper gums, the tongue, lips, and sometimes 
the nose, and which seemed to take the same course as those on 
the feet ; and I have observed in many cases these vesicles ex- 
tended to the larynx, and down the oesophagus. These I have 
seen in cases of post-mortem examination at the butchers, &c. 
This is the cause of the difficulty in swallowing which we some- 
times see. 
The teats now begin to be affected with the same kind of ve- 
sicles, and are a source of great evil, as from the pain and diffi- 
culty there is in milking, garget or inflammation of the udder 
frequently ensues. In many cases the disease terminated in con- 
gestion, either of some of the internal viscera or some external 
local part. Frequently near the udder, hip, stifle, thigh, knees, 
and other joints, it appears in the shape of large indolent tumors, 
which, on an incision being made into them, are found to con- 
tain nothing but coagulated blood in great quantities, and much 
blacker than usual. In three weeks or a month this blood dis- 
solves into a brown thin sanious fluid, very foetid, which on open- 
ing the tumour, discharges itself, and readily heals by the com- 
mon means. 
11. First bleeding, if attended early — always physic, and 
somewhat brisk in its character, if the case is not attended with 
diarrhoea. After the operation of the physic, strong diuretics, 
conjoined with diaphoretics, stomachics, and tonics ; and, applied 
to the feet and mouth a solution of alum, sulphate of copper, 
and zinc. 
12. From six to thirteen days, according to the intensity of 
the disease and the treatment, and whether it has been attended 
to at an early stage of the disease. 
13. The number treated by me was 187 : one cow being at her 
full time of parturition when the disease was raging on her, she 
