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FOOT ROT’^ in sheep. 
grounded hope can be entertained that the disease will not 
extend westward again, when its wide diffusion in the countries 
alluded to is considered in relation to the cattle traffic which 
is continually going on from them into Western Europe. 
SPLENIC APOPLEXY IN CATTLE. 
Among the diseases of a fatal character which are rife at 
the present time among cattle, may be mentioned the one 
known as splenic apoplexy. In our January number atten¬ 
tion was directed to this circumstance, and it was 'hinted 
that an increase in the number of cases was probably due to 
the mild and humid state of the weather. If this can be 
reckoned among the ill-understood causes of the disease, the 
continued existence of the malady is not difficult to explain. 
Its fatality remains equally as great, and the preventive 
measures, which some of our correspondents have adopted, 
have proved nearly as infective as the curative means 
employed. We repeat that in our experience the use of sul¬ 
phites, and a change of location and food, have often arrested 
the progress of the malady. 
“FOOT ROT^^ IN SHEEP. 
As might have been anticipated, a large number of sheep 
are suffering from “ foot rot,^^ especially in those districts 
where the animals are kept nearly, or entirely, on natural 
pastures. In such places the feet of the sheep are never dry; 
and as such the skin between the digits soon suffers from 
diseased action, and a foundation is laid for those marked 
changes which give name to the affection. The use of mild 
astringents, and a removal to ploughed land, will often be 
found to have a very beneficial effect in arresting the progress 
of the disease. 
In some instances sheep wEich have been long kept in 
straw-yards on wet manure have suffered severely from foot 
disease. Effectual treatment of these cases is impossible so 
long as the animals remain in the position where the causes 
are existent; but the use of caustic solutions and frequent 
applications of tar will, in some degree, palliate the evil. 
