THE FARM DOCTOR, 



CHAPTER I. 

 CONTAGIOIJS AND EPIZOOTIC DISEASES. 



Their importance and cla-^sification. Disinfection. Horse-pox. Cow-po.v 

 Sheep-pox. Goat-pox. Swinepox. Dog-pox. Bird-pox. Aphthous fever, 

 foot and mouth disease. Rinderpest, Russian cattle-plague. Lung-fever ol 

 cattle, contagious pleuro-pneumonia. Strangles. Influenza. Typhoid or 

 bilious fever of horses. Distemper of dogs and cats. Malignant (Asiatic) 

 •cholera in animals. Intestinal fever in swine, hog-cholera. Texan iever in 

 cattle. Canine madness. Malignant anthrax. Glanders and farcy. Venereal 

 disease of solipeds. Tuberculosis, consumption. 



These are among the most important of the whole range of 

 diseases of animals, being the most destructive to the animals 

 themselves and in many cases to man, and being at the same 

 time, as a rule, preventible by a rigid adherence to sanitary 

 laws. Of their devastations we have the most appalling 

 accounts in the records of antiquity as well as in recent times. 

 In the time of Moses they ravaged Egypt until, says the 

 record, "all the cattle of Egypt died;" nor was man spared, 

 for " boils and blains " broke out on man and beast. — Ex. IX. 

 3. At the siege of Troy the Grecian army was decimated by 

 a similar infliction, animals and men perishing in a common 

 destruction. — Iliad. So it has been down through the ages, 

 ^he great extension of the plagues being usually determined 

 by general wars and the accumulation of cattle drawn from all 

 ■sources (infected and sound), into the commissariat parks. 



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