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FOR ULCERS, ABSCESSES, &C. 
foot many times; and in the majority of instances one application 
will be sufficient to obtain a radical cure at the expiration of two 
or three days, even although half the horn is cut away. When 
the disease is of so serious a character as to render it necessary to 
bind up the foot, the eseharotic must still be applied by means of 
a feather, and some dry lint placed over the part. Were the 
pledget of lint saturated with the fluid, it might, perhaps, act 
too powerfully, and eat too deeply. The lint may be removed, 
and the eseharotic applied by means of the feather every day. 
The shed or stables in which the animals are kept while this is 
going forward should be clean and dry, and, if the weather is fair, 
they should be permitted to run out into a dry yard. When the 
rot once appears in a flock of sheep, every one of them will pro- 
bably be infected if the shepherd neglects his duty in the slightest 
degree. 
Foot-rot in cattle *-^ This disease is of rare occurrence — I mean 
the true foot-rot, characterized by the following symptoms, redness 
and heat of the integument betweeil the toes— swelling of the foot 
reaching to the fetlock — a vesicle appearing at the coronet filled 
with a limpid fluid — separation of the horn from the sensible parts 
beneath, and ulceration beneath the horn. I have treated this 
disease in the way that I have recommended for foot-rot, and, al- 
though I have occasionally been compelled to take away almost 
the whole of the horn, yet, after two dressings, the lameness has 
nearly disappeared, and the wound has been healed. 
The cow is subject to another disease of the foot. The animal 
is somewhat lame for a longer or shorter time before the external 
appearance of any disease. At length the claws begin to sepa- 
rate a little ; the interdigital integument becomes inflamed and 
tender — the foot is hot — the lameness increases — often the secre- 
tion of milk diminishes, and the appetite becomes impaired — the 
coronet, the pastern, and then the fetlock, become enlarged : at 
length, the skin, and especially at the pastern joint, begins to ul- 
cerate, and the wounds discharge a limpid red fluid, which soon 
becomes concrete. The ulcers deepen and spread, they extend 
between the claws— they become gangrenous, and, in some more 
than usually malignant cases, they destroy the animal. On the 
first appearance of this disease the parts should be well embro- 
cated, and this should be continued while any lameness remains. 
Even if the swelling has reached the fetlock, the vinegar should 
be used : but as soon as there is the slightest wound, the parts 
should be well bathed with soap and water, and then the es- 
charotic applied. One or two dressings with it will usually ac- 
complish a cure. The wounds being healed, the frictions with 
vinegar may be continued, in order to remove any enlargement that 
may remain. 
