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FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
sive nights and a day, she freely partook of the remainder. 
On the third day following the last drinking of the water 
she presented appearances which to the practised eye indicated 
that mischief was beginning, and an application of the 
thermometer test was had recourse to, which showed that 
the temperature had already risen to 105~. On the following 
day the symptoms of cattle plague were well marked, and 
from that time the disease progressed so rapidly that death 
followed on the fourth day of illness , and ninth from the 
time the infected water was first partaken of. 
It may be right to add that the experiment was carried 
out under circumstances which rendered it impossible that 
the animal could in any other way, save by drinking the 
water, have been exposed to the infecting material of cattle 
plague. Its result fully confirms the opinion arrived at 
during the prevalence of the disease in 1866, and establishes 
the views held by the best of the continental observers. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
This malady continues to prevail, in some districts, in a 
very virulent form, and although the deaths which take 
place still constitute an insignificant per centage, the 
aggregate loss to the agricultural interest is great, arising 
from waste of condition in so many thousands of animals as 
are now affected. One noteworthy feature of the disease is 
its great severity and extraordinary prevalence among sheep, 
a circumstance which brings forcibly back to our minds the 
state of things as existing in 1840—1. At that period 
thousands of sheep suffered to such extent that the horny 
coverings of their digits were detached as completely as they 
would have been by the process of scalding after death. A 
visit to “old Smithfield” was sure to bear witness to the fact 
that on each market-day scores of sheep were standing 
on hoofless feet, and that the detached hoofs could be picked 
up by dozens. Then, as now, pigs and poultry also suffered 
greatly, pigs being affected in their feet in a similar manner 
to sheep. According to recent observation, deer have likewise 
been attacked with the malady. This has been especially 
the case in Bushy Park, Hampton Court, where the animals 
are supposed to have received the infection through being 
exposed to some diseased cows. 
As we have often observed, these periodic outbreaks of foot- 
and-mouth disease in its malignant form are problems yet to 
