THE 



FARMER'S VETERINARY ADVISER. 



CHAPTER I. 

 CONTAGIOUS AND EPIZOOTIC DISEASES. 



Their importance and classification. Disinfection. Horse-pox. Cow. 

 pox. Slieep-pox. Goat-pox. Swine-pox. Dog-pox. Bird-pox. Aph- 

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

 Lung-fever of 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 

 fever 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 ia the records of antiq- 

 uity as well as in recent times. In the time of Moses they 

 ravaged Egypt until, says the record, "aU the cattle of 

 Egypt died ;" nor was man spared, for "boUs and blains" 

 broke out on man and beast. — Ex. IX. 3. At the siege 

 of Troy the Grecian army was decimated by a similar ia- 

 fliction, animals and men porishing in a cQmmon destruc- 

 tion.— iTiocZ. So it has been down through the ages, the 

 great extension of the plagues being usually determined 



