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CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN CATTLE 



Synonyms. Lung plague ; pleuro-pneumonia zymotica ; 

 Peripncumonie confagieuse : Lungensenche. 



^ 351. Characterization. Contagious pleuro-pneu- 

 monia of cattle is a specific epizootic disease which affects 

 bovine animals and from which other species are exempt. 

 When the disease results from exposure in the usual manner, 

 it is characterized by an inflammation of the lungs and pleurae, 

 which is generally extensive and which has a tendency to 

 invade portions of these organs not primarily affected and to 

 cause death of the diseased portion of the lung. 



§ 352 History. The first account of the appearance of 

 contagious pleuro-pneumonia dates from the end of tlie seven- 

 teenth century. It is stated that it was observed m Hesse tor 

 the first time' in 1693, and that Us earliest appearance as an 

 epizootic was in 1713 and 1714- when it prevailed chiefly m 

 Switzerland and the neighboring countries of Wurtemberg. 

 Baden and Alsace. There are detailed reports of its occur- 

 rence from the year 1743- I" ^773. Haller published an essay 

 on this disea.se, which was raging severely at that time. He 

 described the symptoms, anatomical characters and protective 

 mea.sures laid down at that lime by the sanitary police. In 

 17. S the disease appeared in England and in 1765 m France 

 From 1790 it spread over the whole of Germany. France and 



