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of the tares should be discontinued, and that the sheep should be pas¬ 
tured on grass, and receive also crushed corn, cake, and bran. It was 
further advised, in the case of the sick animals, that nutritive gruel be 
administered, and exposure to wet and cold scrupulously avoided. A 
dose of aperient medicine had already been given to each of them, and 
this was supplemented by the daily administration of antacid and anti¬ 
septic agents. 
Astringent applications were prescribed for the eroded and ulcerated 
mouth, and the advantage of good nursing pointed out. 
J. Wortley Axe, Professor. 
Report on an Outbreak of “ Hoose ” in a Herd of Calves , the property of 
P. Broughton , Esg., Tunstall Hall , Market Drayton. 
On the 18th of September I was requested by Professor Simonds to 
visit Tunstall Hall, and to inquire into the facts relating to an outbreak 
of disease as above stated. 
In the spring of the present year Mr. Broughton purchased, at dif¬ 
ferent times and of various persons, 111 calves from three weeks to a 
month old. All of them were reared on new milk, and excepting occa¬ 
sional instances of slight ailments to which pail-fed calves are liable, 
the whole of them made good progress, and showed no signs of weakness 
or disease. The process of weaning was got over without difficulty, 
and about the third week in May all of them were turned into a 
park of fifty acres during the daytime, and received besides grass, one 
pound of cake, half a pound of pea-meal, and the same quantity of 
Indian corn. In the evening they were housed, until the second week 
in June, when they were allowed to remain out altogether. The park 
occupies an elevated position, and the soil is dry, and of a light loamy 
character. The water-supply is derived exclusively from a running 
stream, and there are no swampy places or stagnant pools in the pasture. 
Up to the third week in July they continued to grow and accumulate 
flesh; after that time many of them were noticed to shrink, and gradually 
waste away. In the meantime, symptoms of disease appeared, and by 
the first week in August several of them were dangerously ill. The 
first animal died about a fortnight later, since which time others have 
succumbed, at shorter or longer intervals, until the day of my visit, when 
sixteen were reported dead. 
During the last week in August they were removed on to aftermath, 
but the change had no perceptible influence on the progress of the dis¬ 
ease. I had an opportunity of observing several calves in an advanced 
stage of the disorder, and others which were then regarded as healthy. 
A very casual examination of the latter, however, was required to satisfy 
me that some insiduous disturbance was going on within them, and that 
they were all more or less in a state of disease. In several there were 
marked signs of unthriftiness, and in some actual symptoms of disease. 
The last-named instances were distinguished by their low condition, 
harsh and staring coat, arched back, feeble movements, depending head, 
dull expression, and occasional cough, aggravated by exertion. That 
the cough was not belonging to an ordinary cold and catarrh was shown 
by the absence of discharge from eyes or nose, and by its peculiar husky 
character. Those animals more advanced in the disease were extremely 
emaciated; the appetite was capricious or entirely absent; there was 
diarrhoea, extreme thirst, and other phenomena of fever; the back was 
arched, the breathing quick, and accompanied by a frequent cough; the 
movements were unsteady, and on the chest sounds were unmistakably 
