FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 14

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE

Research Cdncerniiig Horses A statement tliafc lid#s6s ate subject td fddt-and-iWb contained in a letter to tlie of the Idh” from Mr. J. A. donndlt, published fesfdfday; and ddcoihptiiildd Uf a quotation from Frledberger dtid Fr6hner s “Veterinary Pfl tholdgy’," is tlie Department of AgficuitUfA Mr. Connell's lettet was a contradicts of A pfevldiii stfltehidnt by the depart“The cotfdspdudent iti qiidstibii apparehfl# dock Hot give to tile advance of modern science in animal dise’ase research/' states the flepartiridnt. “Fodt-iind-motifli disease has been the subject of fepeclhl ihVeshgation of late y&irs. , . . “The book by Friedberget and Frontier ffdih Which yoh qiiote. (Which was bbffowed frdfti oiif office by, ydiir correspondent) is 25 years bld. There afe other early fetatenieiits td the same effect, all, sb far as cdti be asdertained. ofigihatiiig In countries where foot-dhd-niouth disease Was Widespread. It seeiris evident that in those days a pustular affection of the mouth of the horse was sometimes mistaken for foot-and-mouth disease. The most authoritative literature on the subject at the present time is the four progress reports of the Foot-and-mouth -Disease Research Committee set Up by the British Governriient. The last of these Was published in 1931, and ih dealing With ‘foot-and-mouth disease in other animals besides cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats,’ it mentions nian, rats, rabbits, hedgehogs, cats, and dogs, but makes nd mdhtion of horses. Also, in the three preceding reports of this committee, the horse is never mentioned. “Further, in a book published last yeaf and written by Professor Gaiger, pflticipal of the Veterinary School at Liverpdoj tffilvefsity, and Mr. G. 0. Davies, M.R.C.V.S., it is explicitly stated that the horse is not susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease. Professor Gaiger is also president of the Royal College of Veterinary Sufgeons. In 1927 he visited the Argentine to advise on the position there with regard, to foot-and-mouth disease, and with that object, spent six months in that country,”