2 04 Report on ^ieppc Murrain or Rinderpest. 



Cases V., VI., VII., VIII. 



The animals which formed the subjects of these cases were 

 the companions of Case IV. Three of them exhibited the usual 

 symptoms which are seen at the commencement of the pest on 

 the morning^ of May 10th, and the other was taken ill during the 

 next day. The character and progress of the symptoms in the 

 first three were about the same as usual, and therefore do not call 

 for any particular remarks. The opportunity was afforded us of 

 watching these animals during the whole of May 10th, the Com- 

 missioners allowing them to be kept for that purpose ; but on the 

 following day, as soon as the only remaining animal (Case VIII.) 

 was attacked, they were all slaughtered. Tlie malady was quickly 

 running its course at this time, and doubtless would have termi- 

 nated fatally in all the animals within a day or two ; indeed, in 

 one the symptoms were now so much aggravated as to convince 

 us that a few hours would suffice for it to succumb to the pest. 



The post-mortem examination, which we made in each of these 

 cases, showed that in all essential particulars the morbid changes 

 agreed with those we have already given in detail. Slight dif- 

 ferences were observed both in the extent and location of the 

 principal lesions, but these it is unnecessary to describe. Indeed 

 a careful perusal of the cases we have selected for embodiment in 

 this Report will, we hope, sufficiently explain these, even to the 

 medical as to the non-medical reader. 



Austria. 



In our return journey from Galicia we visited Vienna, and 

 went from thence to Munich, Stuttgardt, and Frankfurt, with a 

 view of ascertaining, by a personal examination, the state of things 

 in Southern Germany and Rhenish Prussia. In no division of 

 the Austrian dominions, except Galicia, has rinderpest prevailed 

 during the present year ; Bohemia, Moravia, and even Hungary, 

 have been entirely free from it. The disease existed in several 

 parts of the empire in 1855 and 1856, but was suppressed in the 

 usual manner. It was introduced from Bessarabia, whence it 

 appears that it generally comes. 



Some anxiety was shown for fear the malady might be 

 disseminated by the bringing together of animals from different 

 countries at the great Agricultural Exhibition at Vienna, which 

 took place in May last ; and the directors of the show, early 

 in April, issued a notice, in which they stated " that the cases 

 of disease which had occurred in Moldavia and Silesia had 

 been confined altogether to the individual animals which had 

 been imported, and that the cattle of the country was free 



