THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE, &c. 305 
I will now speak of a few experimental facts as adjuvants to 
the medical treatment described, and particularly bleeding. My 
friend, John Bodley, Esq., a member of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, had four valuable rams of the Leicester breed taken with 
the epizootic — its first appearance on his farm. They were in 
good condition. Their mouths were affected, and their feet also, 
accompanied by severe lameness, pain, and irritative fever. We 
bled two ; the other two were not bled. The two that were bled 
did not recover any sooner, and Mr. Bodley, as well as myself, 
thought the cure in them was retarded. Lambs only from two 
to three days old I have also bled ; but, after all, the disease has 
pursued its destructive course. Many calves also have died in 
my neighbourhood, from three to ten days old, from sucking their 
dams while affected with the epizootic. 
20th. None of the horses have died under my own notice, nor 
have any, to my knowledge, from the influenza itself ; but great 
loss has been sustained from injudicious treatment, viz., that of 
purgation while under the influence of the disease, which is, in 
most cases, a destructive poison. 
Cattle . — Out of from 1000 to 1500 head of cattle none have 
died. 
Sheep . — As I have before stated, of wether sheep and bar- 
reners none have died ; but many deaths have arisen prior to and 
after the gestation of the ewe. I have examined many, and found 
their death ascribable to other causes, such as the effect of dif- 
ficult parturition, old diseases of the lungs, &c. Farmers ascribe 
every thing now to the effect of the epizootic. Numerous have 
been the deaths from ramollissement , with granular degeneration 
of the liver, confined to the gestating ewe. Farmers with us call 
it the “ dry caw.” The liver has a pale ash colour; the perito- 
neal coat is easily torn ; and with the least pressure the finger 
can break down the substance of the liver. There is no effusion 
in the belly, and the rest of the viscera seem healthy. No 
abscesses or flukes are to be seen in the liver : but the bile-bladder 
is full, but of a pale colour. I do not think it has any thing 
to do with wet. We have had a very dry summer, and the sheep 
examined by me were on healthy sheep estates. I think it pro- 
duced by the first shoot of young grass under the influence of 
locality of soil and manure. The ewes maintain a fair condition, 
but are rather listless, and frequently lie down. They do not 
mingle with the flock as usual, and suckle their lambs until 
within a short period of their death. Remedial means, none. 
21st. In those cases where the udder was not affected, the 
milk has in some partially diminished ; in others not at all. In 
from ten to eighteen days it again returned. In those where the 
