New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20
THE TRIBUNE'S FOREIGN NEWS
AND.MOUTH DISEASE
French Discovery Of a Method Of
Prevention and Cure.

prevention and Cure.
Paris. August II.
Foot-and mouth disease, or ''fevre
aphteuse," as this epidemic that affects
cattle, sheep and pigs is called in France.
which broke out three months ago IN
the department OF Haute-Savoie. has
reached Normandy, Brittany and the
Beauce country and is extending TO
Central and Southern France. The dis
ease 10 in a mild form. hut is Of great In
terest 70 farmers In the United States as
we'll as In Europe, because 1t furnishes
the occasion for great number of sci-
entifc experiments for it's prevention
and cure which until the present sum-
mer have never been found effective
Hitherto the microbe Of the foot-and.
mouth disease has been little known,
and in spite Of many Investigations no
serum has been obtained that could give
absolute immunity from the maiady.
Attention, however, is called by the
Agricultural Society OF Rouen TO the
, discoveries made in the veterinary acid
by DR.. Doyen. of Paris, which have GER
| tainly checked the disease, although II is
too soon to determine whether the treat
ment renders the animals immune. The
experiments have been made in the val
ley OF the Auge, near Trouville, cattle
raising region, where the foot-and-
mouth disease has been especially viru-
lent. The results are stated by the Nor
man Agricultural Society Of Rouen to be
more satisfactory than anything hitherto
obtained.
The treatment consists OF NEGOTIATIONS
made with a certain serum prepared at
Or. Doyen's laboratory, called the
liquide phagogene," and which is in
jected beneath the animals hide in
quantities varying from - TO 800 cubic
centlmetres, according to the intensity OF
the disease. The experiments were made
with the assistance Of Or. Herve. vet
Urinary inspector Of Trouvile, and II.
Theuriet, the veterinary superintendent
of the farms Of William X. Vanderbilt.
on Friday, July q, 80 cubic cent?
metres Of the liquid were employed in
were in very bad condition. Next day at
8 o'clock-that is to say, exactly fifteen
hours after inoculation-a marked i'm
provement was noticed. The ulcers of
the mouth had dried up and the ulcers
and LESSONS around the hoofs had so
diminished that the heifers, which at the
moment of incubation were unable TO
stand on their feet, were able to walk.
In five days all the ulcers and marks OF
the disease had disappeared. The ami
mails became healthy. vigorous and
hungry.
Over two hundred diseased animals,
including bulls, oxen. cows, calves and
pigs, were subjected to the treatment.
They soon ceased to foam at the mouth.
the ulcers on the mucous membranes
vanished and the LESSONS Of the hoofs
were cured. The best results were OBJ
tanned when two NEGOTIATIONS were made,
with the interval of = day between the
lrst and second. II is claimed that the
treatment is preventive. healthy animals
becoming immune from the malady.
This discovery is regarded by the
farmers Of Normandy as Of great inn
portance, because the foot-and-mouth
disease in France generally lasts three
weeks Although contagious to an
extraordinary degree between different
heads Of cattle, it does not contaminate
human beings. But it is noted that hui
man beings are the most rapid agents
for spreading the disease by means Of
the microbes retained in their clothing
In fact. the veterinary inspectors Of the
government, whose business it is to visit
the cattle farms in infected districts to
report on the disease and see that meas
ures Of sanitation are enforced in the
stables, have this year communicated
the foot-and- disease from the de-
partment OF the Haute-Savoie where 1t
started, to almost every grazing region
in France. The Agricultural Society Of
Rouen estimates that in Normandy alone
the foot-and- mouth disease has affected
three hundred thousand head OF cattle
and that the pecuniary loss to farmers
exceeds 100000. These figures give
an idea of the Importance "f the dis
coyery. I. l. Is.