SECOND REPORT 



New York State Agkicuxtukal Rooms, ) 

 Albany, June \hth^ 1866. [ 



The Committee of the Executive Board, in presenting their report 

 on the remaining portion of the subject of the Rinderpest as referred 

 to them, desire to acknowledge access to various other publications 

 and treatises, on this and kindred diseases, than those mentioned in 

 their preliminary report. Of these they would especially notice the 

 essay of Latard, on the distemper of 1745-57 ; the report of Jessen 

 (now Counsellor of State and Director and Professor of the Veterin- 

 ary College of Charkow) to the Russian Government, on the results 

 of inoculation as a method of cure and extirpation of the disease ; 

 the inquiry into the Pathology and Treatment of the Cattle Plague, 

 by Alfred C. Pope, Esq., and the Sequel to the Report made to the 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 



Others are referred to in the body of the report. They ought not, 

 to overlook the elaborate treatise of John Gamgee, Principal 

 of the Albert Veterinary College, London, &c., although the greater 

 portion of this report was prepared for the press before access 

 to his work. It exhibits large research and is of the highest value, 

 when detailing his own independent observations or the investigations 

 of others of equal science and repute. In addition to the topics dis- 

 cussed by other writers, this volume contains the debates of the 

 International Veterinary Congresses (held at Hamburg in 1863, and 

 at Vienna in 1865), on quarantine, diseases of cattle requiring police 

 regulation, &c. Appended are papers by Drs. Beale and Cobbold 

 on the entozoa found in the muscles after death, &c. It will be 

 seen that we have drawn upon this volume by copious notes ; that 

 in our discussion of the pathology frequent reference has been made 

 to Gamgee's observations and those of his co-adjutors ; and that under 

 the head of treatment, one of his remarkable experiments has been 

 employed, as we trust, after a method which may result in robbing 

 this plague of some of its terrors. 



Of the works referred to in the first report, that of Dr. Smart, of 

 Edinburgh, with its splendid pathological illustrations, has been most 

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