American Veterinary Review, 
AUGUST, 1884. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
REPORT ON THE RECENT CATTLE DISEASE IN KANSAS, 
By Prof. James Law, of Cornell University. 
Hon. II. F. French , Assistant Secretary , United States Treasury: 
Sir:—I have the honor to submit the following report on the 
disease of cattle which has recently prevailed at certain points in 
the States of Kansas and Illinois, and which was erroneously an¬ 
nounced to be th q foot and mouth disease of the Old World. 
The first report of the disease was on March 3, in a telegram 
sent from Neosho Falls, Woodson County, Kansas, by Lieutenant- 
Govenor Finney, to apprise Governor Glick that “ the foot and 
mouth disease was prevailing to an alarming extent in that 
vicinity.” 
A company from Emporia, consisting of three cattle-raisers 
and a veterinarian, at once visited the Neosho district and pro¬ 
nounced the malady to be unquestionably the foot and mouth di¬ 
sease. The day following the Governor conveyed Dr. Holcombe, 
D.Y.S. of the United States Army, stationed at Leavenworth, to 
the district, and still the same conclusion was arrived at. 
In a letter of March 8, which I received from Mr. W. N. D. 
Bird, a stock-raiser in Greenwood and Lyon Counties, and who 
made one of the first party of four to visit Neosho Falls, the fol¬ 
lowing statements occur: 
