Abstract
THE lesions of foot-and-mouth disease in the guinea pig are localized in the epithelium of the mouth, feet, prepuce, ear and sometimes in other hairless parts of the skin1. During an investigation2 into the factors responsible for this, information was sought on the quantitative aspects of epithelial growth at the predilection sites as compared with hairy skin. As data on this subject are scanty in the guinea pig3, some investigations were carried out. In the present communication, values for the maximum renewal times and other data are reported for the uncornified layers of the epithelium of hairy skin, ear, metatarsal pad, prepuce and tcngue. The differing characteristics of these epithelia are shown in Fig. 1.
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