302 THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE, &c. 
10th. Nothing of the kind. 
11th. They were housed ; in bare condition, feeding on straw 
and turnips: ages, young and old. 
12th. No distinction. 
L3th. The first symptoms recognised were an issuing of ropy 
spume from the mouth ; there were no premonitory symptoms 
observable by the attendant. 
14th. The mouths were chiefly infected, and the feet subse- 
quently in the cows ; in sheep and pigs the feet were all diseased 
first, or their being lame first made it observable. 
15th. No, there has not. 
16th. 
17th. 
18th. Not very severe. 
19th. They have been fed, and have continued to feed, on hay. 
When the frost was severe the turnips were steamed, or boiling 
water poured over them. The medical means used by me con- 
sisted in the exhibition of warm laxatives consisting of, for an ox, 
cow, or steer, four ounces of bruised Alicant aniseed, with sul- 
phur, in doses of half a pound to one pound, administered in 
large potations of gruel. My object in bruising the seed is, that 
half the powder of the various carminative seeds purchased at 
wholesale vendors is spurious, or has lost its efficacy. One dose 
of this medicine is sufficient in most cases to excite the bowels ; 
or, if not, it is repeated in doses of half the quantity, until some 
purging is produced. I apply nothing either to the mouth or feet. 
Solutions of blue stone, or muriatic acid and tar, I have witnessed 
to be highly injurious. I have also derived many facts from the 
maltreatment of others. I had ten cows affected with the disease 
under treatment, feeding on straw and turnips: about 100 yards 
distant were five cows labouring under the same complaint. Those 
under my treatment had nothing applied to the feet or mouth. 
They did well in ten days ; the others had a solution of sulphate 
of copper and diluted muriatic acid applied to the excoriations 
on the tongue ; the consequence was, that their tongues swelled 
in every one of them, and they were more than three weeks in 
recovering. Again, the foot rot is very prevalent in my neigh- 
bourhood. Many, not aware of the disease, imagined that the 
lameness arose from it. They applied the usual remedies, which 
produced great irritation and pain, and considerably retarded the 
cure ; the feet of those sheep were longer recovering. As another 
proof, the disease began in some yearlings. The farmer imagined 
that they were lame in the feet between the claws, sent for the 
smith, and applied the usual caustic. It greatly aggravated the 
distemper. Eight more were taken ill. Nothing was applied to 
