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still find time to inquire into this experimentally. At present 
there is a strong presumption of the poisoning of the mouth and 
system through the milk, and of the feet through the fieces. At 
the same time the occurrence of two cases of what seem to have 
been septic wounds in man (Dr. Trumbrower and Mr. Keith) from 
handling the diseased parts suggests the probable action of the 
putrid products from the gangrenous feet. 
INOCULATION EXPERIMENTS. 
On my arrival at Neosho Falls I lost no time in starting ino¬ 
culations. In the absence of a fresh case of the disease on the 
morning of April 16, I scraped the surface of the eschars in the 
mouth of the most recent victim, attacked si*x days before, and 
inoculated two sheep, one on the upper lip and pad covering the 
intermaxillary bone, and the other on the upper lip and inter¬ 
digital space. Next day the wound on the interdigital space had 
a small scab on a reddish base, but all the sores healed with great 
rapidity, and at no time was there any symptom of fever. 
April 17 took matter from the buccal concretion of Prebinow’s 
sick calf (five days old),and the same day inoculated therewith a 
heifer (one of the last four added to Keith’s small corral) on the 
lower gum and left ear. Next day at Beard’s, inoculated two 
three-months-old pigs which had been kept in a pen apart from 
the cattle, and a half-bred Galloway calf twenty-four hours old. 
These were all watched closely till April 20, and the three last 
until April 21, but all the wounds healed rapidly and no constitu¬ 
tional disorder was observed at any time. 
These negative results of the inoculation of matter from afresh 
cow on cattle, sheep, and swine not only exclude any possibility of 
foot and mouth disease, but further demonstrate the disease is 
either not transmissable at all by contagion or inoculation, or if it 
be still held to be communicable from a first case to a second, that 
it is not transferable from a second to a third. We are fully 
warranted, therefore, in the claim that the affection cannot be 
perpetuated indefinitely after the manner of an animal plague, 
and that there is no danger of the generation in this way of a 
scourge which shall enter the channels of our cattle traffic and 
