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Catarrh. — This is not a disease common to the ox, for 

 when causes arise sufficient to produce catarrh or cold in 

 the cow, it does not run its course as such, but is speedily 

 accompanied, or at least followed, by severe complica- 

 tions. Cattle not exceeding two years old are subject to 

 a disease somewhat similar to cold, and is called hoose. — 

 (See Bronchitis and Hoose.) 



Catarrhus Linuum Frontalium. — Malignant Ca- 

 tarrh. — This is one of the recorded diseases of the ox 

 which I think has really no existence, except in the 

 brain of some men, or it may be a condition confound- 

 ed with Typhus Contagiosus Bourn. The disease 

 is described as being similar to glanders in the horse. 

 If this be the case, the disease is not properly named ; 

 for the frontal sinuses are not the seat of the disease. This 

 multiplication of names of diseases is only adapted to 

 puzzle people, and annoy the farmer. If this be not the 

 true reason, then I unhesitatingly denounce those writers 

 as being utterly ignorant of the first principles of pathol- 

 ogy, upon which all writings and opinions should be sub- 

 servient. 



Cattle Plague. — This is a vague name, and conveys 

 no intimation of the cause, nature, seat, or characteristics 

 of the affection, whatever it may be. Therefore, for the 

 credit of the writer and for the convenience of the public, 

 no disease should be called a plague. There is now no 

 disease affecting the human family called a plague. The 

 experienced physician can now tell the nature, seat and 

 complete history of the disease, and gives it a name by 

 which it will ever henceforth be known and recognised. 

 Why should not the veterinary surgeon do likewise? 



So long as such men as Gamgee continue to write 



