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principally preventative in avoidance of the causes. Comprises 

 local ajiplications of stimulants, anodynes, and fomentations. The 

 benefit of medicines administered internally is doubtful.. 

 Section 2. Specific Disorders of the Blood. 

 PLEUROPJfEUMONiA Ztmotica. Under the name " Epidemic 

 disease of the Lungs" Dr. Macdonald, in the Topographical 

 Report to the Madras Medical Board, has described an outbreak 

 of disease among Elephants on the Tenasserim Coast in 1839, 

 which assumed the epizootic form. He says (but the italics are our 

 own) '' It began in Moulmein, after the mortality ceased among the 

 bullocks, some time in June. Previous to this elephants through- 

 out the provinces died in immense numbers. Post-mortem examin- 

 ations were made in many of these cases, and, save in two 

 instances, when death appeared to be the result of Peritonitis 

 (in one of which rupture into the abdominal cavity had taken 

 place), all died of disease of the Lungs in various stages of 

 congestion and very frequently suppuration was present. li 

 was observed also that generally one side of the chest only 

 was affected, the other lung being fairly healthy. Among 

 those who died in the first outbreak of the disease the lungs 

 were absolutely black throughout their whole structure, more 

 like the spleen, save in its tough membi-anous intersections, 

 than the lungs. This was so general that in our first examin- 

 ations it was a matter of doubt what was health and what 

 was disease; but in progress it was ascertained that the healthy 

 lung is of a pale, fleshy, firm, elastic substance while the diseased 

 structure showed every shade, from the florid appearance of active 

 Inflammation to the black apoplectic condition, this, when cut into, 

 giving forth a frothy purulent exudation. The animals continued 

 to work till the hour of their death." The italicised passages will 

 be very significant to any reader acquainted with cattle pathology, 

 and it is evidently very important for us to know whether the 

 communicable pleuropenumonia of cattle can afEect the elephant ? 

 This is not at all improbable, if we consider that elephants and 

 oxen suffer in common from several diseases such as Foot and 

 mouth disease. Anthrax, and Rabies, but these affect also animals 

 of many other species. So we must look a little more carefully into 

 this question of communicability of diseases of oxen to elephants, 

 and then we find that there is a disorder known as Epizootic 



