382 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



just below the knee, and although attended by no great consti- 

 tutional disturbance, was, nevertheless, rather tedious in its 

 progress, lasting six or seven weeks." This was a family in 

 Brighton. 



These facts, perfectly well authenticated, are sufficiently con- 

 clusive ; but to test the specific nature of the eruptions caused 

 in this way by drinking the milk of cows affected with the 

 disease, the virus or lymph was taken on quills from the vesicles 

 on one of the persons above mentioned and transferred to the 

 bodies of two young rabbits. In two days the inner surface of 

 the lips was swollen and covered with a bloody discharge, 

 ymall white specks soon appeared on the inflamed spots, and 

 the animals were seized with convulsions and died, one in two, 

 the other in four days after the inoculation. 



On the 10th of February, 1871, portions of the same lymph, 

 taken from one of the persons alluded to, were introduced, by 

 the ordinary process of inoculation, into the arm of a healthy 

 man, when in two days vesicles formed at two of the three 

 points of inoculation. In four or five days more, these vesicles 

 attained the size of a split-pea and were ruptured, and un- 

 healthy looking ulcers appeared in their places, and these con- 

 tinued to enlarge. Twelve days after the inoculation these ul- 

 cers gave no indication of healthy action, thus leaving no doubt 

 as to the contagiousness of the disease. 



Tiiough far less fatal than the well known pleuro-pncumonia, 

 ■which was imported and disseminated among us a few years 

 ago, yet, when complicated with other organic difficulties, it has 

 been fatal to cattle ; and we know of many losses by death, 

 cases which have not, for various reasons, been reported to the 

 public, but which prove the serious nature of the malady, and 

 the importance of taking every possible and legitimate measure 

 to eradicate it from our midst. 



This, like j)lcuro-pneumonia, is an imported disease. It was 

 brought into Canada from Europe a few months ago, and though 

 the journals of Canada have strenuously denied that it has 

 ever existed there, it is perfectly well known to have arrived 

 there in the summer of 1870. The name of the owner and im- 

 porter of the stock, the name of the vessel which brought the 

 cattle and introduced the disease, even the number of the car 

 by which the disease was first brought from Quebec toCompton, 



