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contagion wherever they can be found, in the 

 slaughter-houses, on harness, in pastures, in 

 raihvay trains, &€., as also the disinfection of 

 all objects with which they have been brought 

 into contact ; fifthly, isolation, as complete 

 as possible, of the places where the plague 

 has been found to exist, so that no animal 

 believed to be capable of carrying the con- 

 tagion, or of receiving it, shall be allowed to 

 enter the infected districts, this isolation to 

 be put in practice on farms and all other 

 localities, and to be of greater or less ex- 

 tent, according to the extension of the dis- 

 ease. 



The convention found that, among the 

 various countries that had had occasion to 

 take measures for the proper disinfection of 

 cattle cars and other vehicles of transporta- 



tion, Germany had the most satisfactory ar- 

 rangements. Here, after a train has been 

 emptied of its contents, the cars are imme- 

 diately deluged with warm water of at least 

 190 deg. F. The shock and strength of the 

 current, falling from a considerable elevation, 

 detaches all organic material adhering to the 

 woodwork, and, by the elevation of tempera- 

 ture, annihilates all virulent activity. 



The principal point established by the 

 convention, according to Dr Bouley, was 

 the necessity of an obligation to slaughter 

 all animals as soon as the disease made 

 itself manifest, or as soon as there seemed 

 a probability that an animal would be at- 

 tacked. In this way the plague will be 

 arrested by sacrifice of the smallest number 

 of animals. 



DISEASE OF THE INTESTINES. 



A T the last meeting of the Croydon 

 Jr\. Farmers' Club, Professor Pritchard, 

 of the Royal Veterinary College, delivered a 

 lecture on " Some Diseases Affecting the In- 

 testines of the Horse." 



He said that they would probably conclude 

 that the intestines were very liable to disease. 

 The fact of the intestines having to receive 

 the ingesta either in a digested or undigested 

 form might account for the more frequent oc- 

 currence of disease. It appeared to him that 

 the condition of the ingesta poured into the 

 intestines depended upon the manner in 

 which the stomach was performing its func- 

 tions. The extreme length of the intestinal 

 canal might also account for the fact of the 

 intestines being more frequently subject to 

 disease than .the stomach. Another con- 

 sideration was the amount of exposure the 

 horse was subject to under artificial circum- 

 stances, often having to go for a considerable 

 period without food while hard at work, and 

 perhaps during that time exposed to all kinds 

 of inclement weather, and then when allowed 

 to take food, allowed to take too mucli. These 



circumstances would account to a great extent 

 for the fact of the intestines being so liable to 

 disease. One of the most frequent diseases 

 was bellyache or gripes. Scarcely a day went 

 by with the stud of a large farmer without a 

 case of that kind occurring. 



COLIC IN ITS DIFFERENT PHASES. 



Under the term gripes, or bellyache, many 

 different diseases of the intestines of the 

 horse were thought and spoken of by the 

 uneducated; such complaints, for instance, 

 as diarrhoea, dysentery, enteritis, inflamma- 

 tion of the bowels, cases of constipation, 

 where the bowels are loaded with a quantity 

 of food which they are unable to pass, ob- 

 structions by the formation of calculi, &c. 

 He preferred to speak, first, of gripes as a 

 simple disease, unassociated with others, and 

 then to speak of other diseases attended 

 with griping pains, but not consisting simply 

 of gripes. By colic, or simple gripes, he 

 meant a spasmodic or cramped condition of 

 the muscular coat of the bowels. They 

 would remember there were three principal 



