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III the tbird stage, there will be eruptions spreading over the 

 nose and face, round the coronet and between the clefts of the 

 hoof; ulcers and tumors farming on different parts of the body; 

 finally paralysis and death, putrefaction setting in, as it were, 

 previous to death. 



4. — Teeatmext. 



Ko treatment is of any avail, and all the best authorities 

 recommend the immediate and thorough destruction of the 

 diseased stock aud every particle of fodder likely to contain the 

 infection, in order to ensure the eradication of the disease. 



5. — Cattle Plague tx England. 



The first outbi'cak of cattle plague in England on record was in 

 810, the next in 122-5, the next in 171-1, the next in 1745, which 

 raged for several years, and carried off great numbers of stock ; 

 the next in 1769, which also caused heavy losses ; the next in 

 1835, a very serious one ; and the last in 1872, which was speedily 

 an 1 vigorously dealt with, and stamped out with comparatively 

 little loss. 



For the future, so far as England is concerned, the regularity 

 ani certainty with which the officers of the Veterinary l)epart- 

 nient, London, are now supplied with telegraphic information by 

 Her Majesty's Ambassadors and Consuls, as to the prevalence 

 of cattle plague and other diseases among domestic animals on 

 the Continent, and the system of inspection adopted at the 

 ports where the foreign stock are landed, almost preclude the 

 possibility of the introduction of that disease ; and it is at any 

 rate certain that, if it should by any chance evade the notice of 

 the Inspectors, it will be speedily stamped out. 



6. — Cattle Plague on the Continent. 



Erom what has been said it will be gathered that there are 

 Bome parts of the Continent which from time immemorial have 

 never been free from cattle plague, and that it has frequently 

 decimated the stock in almost every Country in Europe. It is 

 always more or less prevalent in the tSteppes of Eussia, and 

 the same may almost be said of the adjoining provinces of that 

 Country and of the Danubian Principalities, and to some extent 

 of the north-eastern portions of Austria. Notwithstanding the 

 vigilance of the Customs and Veterinary authorities in Prussia, 

 cattle plague has been frequently introduced into that Country, 

 but every invasion of the disease has been promptly and rigorously 

 attacked, and the infection speedily eradicated. 



