10 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



in this city. Slie was examiaed the same day and found to be moaning 

 with each expiration; her breathing was labored ; there wassaliv^ation, 

 extended head, and elbows turned out. Tlie bronchial breathing was 

 loudest on the riuht side; the left side was very dull on percussion up 

 to and somewhat above the median line. The right side had a dull 

 area at lower portion of thorax and another above the median line. 



Mayo, this animal, now sinking rapidly and already tympanitic, was 

 slaughtered. The autopsy revealed the left lung completely solidified 

 with the exception of a very small part of the anterior lobe. Various 

 stages of inflammation were to be seen in the different pirts of the lung. 

 There were thick false membranes and solid adhesions to the dia- 

 phragm and costal pleura. The right lung was extremely emphysema- 

 tous, and parts of it adherent to the costal pleura, but there was no 

 hepatization of its tissues. 



CONNECTICUT. 



In the latter part of August, 18S3, I investigated an outbreak of dis- 

 ease at Salem, Conn., which had affected cattle on the farms of H. B. 

 Williams and Captain Seaman, of that place. The history of this out- 

 break may be summarized as follows: Hon. E. H. Hyde, of the State 

 Commission on Diseases of Domestic Animals, first visited the farm of 

 Mr. Williams on August S, and at that time found a young bull in the 

 lot partially recovered from an attack of disease, and a cow and an ox 

 were both very sick with what he considered to be the typical symptoms 

 of pleuro pneumonia. At Captain Seaman's a cow was very sick and 

 presented the same symptoms as were seen with the affected cattle be- 

 longing to Williams. 



Tlie next morning Dr. Rice, of Hartford, was called, and on arrival, 

 Williams' cow was found to have died daring the night. 



A post- mortem examination was made and the lung found attached to 

 the walls of the chest; when cut across it was seen to be solidly hepatized, 

 of a marbled appearance, and presented all the characters of contagious 

 l)leuro-pneninonia. The Commission advised slaughter, which was ob- 

 jected to, but the same day after the departure of the State officers, the 

 sick ox belonging to Williams and the cow belonging to Seaman were 

 slaughtered. These animals were not examined jn'ofessionally, but the 

 <lescriptions which I received from those who were present were suffi- 

 cient to satisfy me that the lungs were solidified and attached to the 

 ribs. 



August 2!), 1 visited Mr. Williams' farm and learned froin him the 

 parti(;ulars of the outbreak. The first symptoms of disease were seen 

 in one of the cows June 20, and a second cow was attacked on June 23 j 

 both of these died from the effects of the disease July 3. At the time 

 of my visit, August 29, there were six animals on the place : one ox, 

 <juite sick with left lung solidified ; one Jersey' cow, had been quite 

 «ick but was now better; one young Jersey bull, with left lung solidi- 



