FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
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ORIGINAL. ARTICJLES. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE 
AS IT AFFECTS MAN AND ANIMALS, AND ITS RELATION TO 
HUMAN SCARLATINA AS A PROPHYLACTIC. 
Also, Remaeks upon the Transmission of Human Scarlatina to the Lower 
Animals, and the Use of Virus thus Cultivated as a Preventive Agent. 
By J. W. Strickler, M.S., M.D., Orange, N. J. 
((Continued from puge 450). 
Believing, however, that in the evidence furnished by the 
“ Dover epidemic” there was an indication of what might possibly 
be accomplished by the use of the virus of foot-and-mouth dis¬ 
ease as a preventive of human scarlatina, I made further experi¬ 
mental investigation, as follows: 
With some virus (contents of vesicles) taken from cows having 
a mild form of foot-and-mouth disease, I inoculated three chil¬ 
dren, and subsequently exposed them to scarlet fever contagium. 
The histories given briefly will show the results: 
Case I.—M. M-, about eight years of age; had never had 
