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J. W. STKICKLEK. 
secreted by cows suffering from foot-and-mouth disease. During 
the week ending February 9th, two hundred and five persons 
were attacked with this disease. The majority of persons who 
suffered during the Dover epidemic presented two prominent 
symptoms in common, viz; inflammatory sore throat and enlarge¬ 
ment of the cervical lymphatic glands; but the lesions produced 
varied considerably in different cases. The vesicular eruptions 
were followed either by a raw, red, oedematous appearance of the 
mucous membrane, or white patches, and the ulcers which super¬ 
vened assumed in many instances a chronic character, with thick, 
puckered edges, and were a long time in healing. When the in¬ 
flammation went on to suppuration recovery was much slower 
than after common quinsy, and the enlarged cervical glands re¬ 
mained tender, red, and swollen long after the throat symptoms 
had subsided, resembling in this aspect the seguelce of scarlet fever. 
Erysipelas and purulent formations were also concomitants of the 
epidemic. In some instances the feet of those who suffered were 
swollen and painful, simulating rheumatism; and in one instance 
eczema occurred between the toes of the feet, the affection being 
accompanied with very fetid exhalation. A fatal termination re¬ 
sulted in the cases of two children who had very bad throats and 
mouths, with the extension of the disease to the respiratory tract, 
their deaths being, in the opinion of the medical attendant, due 
to the poisonous effects of the milk. Two persons, who labored 
under chronic kidney disease, were respectively attacked with sore 
throat and died on the same day; other people in the same houses 
suffering also from the epidemic sore throat.” 
Having thus traced the course of foot-and-mouth disease as it 
occurred in the cases quoted, and thinking it manifested a certain 
resemblance to human scarlatina, I asked Dr. M. K. Robinson, 
medical officer of health of East Kent, England, if he would call 
upon the various persons who had been affected with the “ epi¬ 
demic sore throat,” and ask them whether they had had scarlet 
fever either before or after having the “sore throat” in 1884, my 
object being to determine whether the human system, having been 
attacked by one of these diseases, would, a§ a result, become 
fortified against the contagium of the other. 
