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bleeding, 1 have not had recourse to it, except in those cases 
in which the symptomatic fever ran high from the inflamed state 
of the feet. Here it was of great benefit, generally relieving the 
animal in a few hours. In severe foot cases the heels were scari- 
fied, well fomented, or placed in a painful of warm water : this 
gave considerable relief. After this astringent mixtures were 
employed ; the mouth was frequently washed with a sol. chlo. 
cal. ; and to this followed a cooling astringent mixture. This 
was used with good effect. The udder of the milking cow re- 
quired particular attention, for it was when she began to amend 
that the udder became diseased. When the healing process had 
commenced, the gland would suddenly inflame, with all the ap- 
pearance of common garget. I immediately repeated the purge, 
fomented with warm water, and applied the lead lotion made 
warm ; these means frequently removed the inflammation in 
twenty-four hours. When the teats had lost the whole of their 
cuticle, I found nothing more healing than the ung. hyd. nit., 
weakened with three-fourths of lard, or any mild ointment. 
12. From six to ten days. 
13. The number of patients to which I gave medicine ex- 
ceeded two hundred, and all perfectly recovered. 
14. The number of diseased animals in my neighbourhood, 
although considerable, is trivial in comparison with those which 
have escaped. I should say, making a rough calculation, that 
not one farm in twenty has been visited with the complaint. A 
great many farmers have treated the disease themselves — many of 
these patients have been lost, others have been lame for a length 
of time, and have lost a great deal of condition. Many of the 
milking cows have lost their udders. The produce of several 
cows have died as soon as born. I attribute this to want of 
proper management during the disease. I am warranted in attri- 
buting it to this cause, from not having had any casualty of this 
kind attending those which have come under my own care. 
15. None whatever, unless the gland became inflamed, when 
the usual changes which take place in common garget were 
observed in this disease. 
16. Fat cattle, and milking cows in high condition, have had 
the disease most severely ; young stock in moderate condition 
have been slightly affected. 
17. No. 
18. When the disease was properly treated and the animals 
well managed, during the first stages, they soon recovered their 
condition and healthy appearance ; but when the hoofs were cast, 
or the udders suppurated, it was some weeks before they regained 
their thriving state. 
