10 RINDERPEST. 



invaluable to your committee in the delineation of symptoms and 

 morbid anatomy. These illustrations, with many of those of Jessen 

 and Gamgee, have been copied and re-arranged, and will, doubtless, 

 in their reprint, confirm to the eye of the reader the marked struc- 

 tural lesions of this disease. 



Careful examinations have also been made of the description of the 

 pathological lesions in cholera by Perigoff, and of those of diseases 

 generally by Lebert and others, in order, if possible, to attain some 

 basis on which to rest the comparative pathology of the Pest. 



A masterly article by Egan, of Pesth, a practical agriculturist 

 (fficonom) of Hungary, who has had a large experience in the man- 

 agement of cattle and the treatment of this and other diseases which 

 are rife in that region, is appended to the second report of the Royal 

 Commissioners. It is to be regretted, that only that part of the 

 article, as prepared by him, touching the Rinderpest, was forwarded 

 by Lord Bloomfield for the use of the English Commission, as it is 

 believed that Egan's discussion of the various forms of Anthrax, and 

 of the Epizootic known in Hungary as the blood plague, would 

 have thrown additional light on some portion of the labors of your 

 committee. 



With the materials before them, your committee have encountered 

 a vast mass of variant statements and conflicting opinions as to 

 observed phenomena, whether referring to symptoms, diagnostic signs, 

 preventive or remedial agencies. Your committee have desired that 

 their labors might lessen this confusion, and have aimed, in their 

 classification of the various symptoms, to present the disease in its 

 leading characteristics. Pursuing such a course, and seeking aid from 

 the most recent investigations made by modern science on the action 

 of blood-poisons and fungoid germs, your committee hope that their 

 labors* may be of essential service to the Society, and through it to 

 the State Commissioners, to whom, in the event of an outbreak of 

 the Pest in this State, such vast interests have been intrusted. 

 In behalf of the committee, 



A. B. CONGER. 



♦Mnch care has been given In the revision of the processes of Mr. Toixe, the artist, to whose 

 skill the lithographing in colors of the Illustrations, has been committed. The time occapied 

 in the attempt to make them faithful copies of the originals, the happy freedom which this 

 country has enjoyed from any outbreak of this fearful pest, the desire of allaying apprehensions 

 too easily excited, and the necessity of reprinting a large portion of the text to conform with 

 the size (8 vo.) of the plates stricken off at a large expense, will account. In some measure, for 

 ths delay In Issoing to members of the society, copies of this Second Report. 



