Suggestions as to lines for future research : being the substance of the oration delivered at the Hunterian Society of London, February 9th, 1881 / by A.H. Smee.

  • Smee, A. Hutchison (Alfred Hutchison), 1845-1901.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Suggestions as to lines for future research : being the substance of the oration delivered at the Hunterian Society of London, February 9th, 1881 / by A.H. Smee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much interest that they deserve to be more extensively known. He states, speaking of the prevalence of a severe epidemic of epizootic of foot-and-mouth disease which occurred in his district during 1875 •— Concurrent with this epidemic, my attention was directed to a severe form of sore throat prevalent amongst children, especially in the neighbourhood of Whitchurch and Llanishen, where the foot-and- mouth disease existed in nearly every dairy. Al- though very severe, and in one or two instances ** coming under my observation, fatal, it differed in some of its essential characteristics from diphtheria, *' its mortality was not nearly so great in proportion to the number attacked with the disease, there was none of the albuminoid secretion accompanying diphtheria, but the disease presented a vesicular character, attacking the uvula, tonsils and pharynx. In two or three cases vesicular bullae were observed about the finger nails ; a very careful microscopical and analytical examination was made in every case when the samples of milk could be obtained, and we rarely failed to find evidences of a diseased condition of this secretion. In all cases where this was dis- covered, the use of the milk was prohibited, and its prohibition marked the subsidence of the disease amongst the children in that locality. In the acute *' stages of foot and mouth disease when the udder is affected the secretion becomes less in quantity and peculiarly rich in solid matter, and the constituent