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J. W. STRICKLER. 
2d. That our city and State may be able to maintain her 
already acquired national supremacy as the birthplace and centre 
of veterinary education of the Union. 
3d. As a humanitarian movement which is to insure the 
care, in sickness and when injured, of our faithful, though dumb, 
servants and companions. 
4th. In behalf of a charity which restores to the poor man 
his beast—often the bread-winner for his family. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE 
AS IT AFFECTS MAN AND ANIMALS, AND ITS RELATION TO 
HUMAN SCARLATINA AS A PROPHYLACTIC. 
Also, Remarks upon the Transmission of Human Scarlatina to the Lower 
Animals, and the Use of Virus thus Cultivated as a Preventive Agent. 
By J. W. Striokler, M.S., M.D., Orange, N. J. 
The disease as it affects mail .—It was long ago discovered that 
the human subject was susceptible to the contagiutn of foot-and- 
mouth disease. The disease is contracted in one of two ways, 
viz., by drinking milk obtained from cows affected with the dis¬ 
ease, or by the accidental introduction of the virus into open 
wounds or sores upon the hands, or other parts of the body. In 
either case the systematic disturbance is, as a rule, very slight, 
while the local lesion, in the great majority of instances, consists 
of an inflammatory sore throat, with or without the development 
of small vesicles upon the inner surface of the cheeks, lips and 
tongue. The cervical lymphatic glands are generally enlarged 
and tender. The tongue sometimes becomes swollen to a consid¬ 
erable degree. In some instances there has been an eruption of 
vesicles upon the feet and hands, in others a scarlet eruption has 
made its appearance upon different parts of the body. Hertwig,* 
during an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, drank daily for 
four days one quart of milk taken from diseased cows. In less 
than forty-eight hours he “ began to experience slight fever, 
twitchings in the limbs, headache, a sensation of dryness and heat 
*Ziemssen’s Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine, vol. iii., p. 521. 
