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calves was not. sufficient to hold the foot and mouth disease for a 
single day, and it was even said the sick cattle had been driven 
through the calf lot to water. 
“ At Pribenow’s only eight per cent, of the animals had been 
attacked, and among a lot of 54 yearlings running with the 
other cattle there was not one case of disease. 
“ At Beard’s, in a herd of 75 the first animal was lame a week 
before the second was affected, and then another week passed be¬ 
fore the others showed any symptoms. Here only six per cent, 
of the cattle on the farm were attacked. 
SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS. 
“ The disease at Neosho Falls therefore did not resemble the 
foot and mouth disease, either in the proportion of the animals 
attacked or in its rate of extension, or in attacking other species 
of animals than cattle. If foot and mouth disease had been in¬ 
troduced into the heart of the country in any of the extraordi¬ 
nary ways which were offered to explain its appearance, we surely 
cannot conceive of its being brought to many widely separated 
herds at about the same time, especially where there has been no 
communication between these herds. The symptoms of foot and 
mouth disease are constitutional and local. The constitutional 
symptoms are loss of appetite, elevation of temperature, and 
other signs peculiar to fevers. The local symptoms consist in an 
eruption of blisters in the mouth, between the toes, about the 
coronet, and on the udder and teats. In the foot and mouth 
disease there is usually a very marked increase of temperature, 
reaching from 104 to 107 degrees. At Neosho Falls the tem¬ 
perature as a rule did not exceed what might reasonably be ex¬ 
pected in health. In the foot and mouth disease there is loss of 
appetite and difficulty of swallowing, but here the universal testi¬ 
mony was that the appetite had remained good throughout, and 
there was no trouble in mastication or swallowing. 
“ In the foot and mouth disease there is an eruption of blisters 
on the mucus membrane of the lips, gums, tongue and ,'palate, 
which are numerous and painful. It is almost impossible for ani¬ 
mals in this condition to eat hay or other dry food, and it is 
