1 4 The Farmer'' s Veterinary Adviser. 



while in the milder cases the peculiar eruption may be 

 almost altogether confined to the skin. 



The symptoms in other ruminants are essentially the 

 same as in the ox, and in the peccary there is sufficient 

 resemblance for recognition. 



The mortality out of its native habitat usually amounts 

 to forty per cent, and up^vard. 



Treatment. The treatment of this plague should be 

 legally prohibited under all circumstances. All the at- 

 tempts of the different schools of medicine and of em- 

 piricism have only increased its ravages, while nations 

 and even countries and districts that have vigorously 

 stamped it out and excluded it have saved their property. 



Prevention. The advent of this plague should be pre- 

 vented by a sufficient supervision of our ports and fron- 

 tiers and a quarantine of stock. If admitted, the victims 

 should be ruthlessly destroyed, deeply buried, and all 

 places and things with which they have come in contact 

 disinfected in the most perfect manner. 



THE LUNG-FEVEE OP CATTLE. CONTAGIOUS TLEUEO-PNEU- 

 MONIA. 



A specific contagious fever of cattle, •with extensive ex- 

 udations into the chest and lungs. 



Like the other plagues already noticed, this is only 

 known in Europe and America as a contagious disease. 

 Its importation into the different countries of Europe has 

 always been traceable to the introduction of diseased 

 beasts or their products. The assertion of the immortal 

 HaUer, more than a century ago, that it is propagated by 

 contagion, has received the amplest confirmation in recent 

 times. It invaded Ireland in 1839-40 by Dutch cattle, 

 England in 1842 by Irish and Dutch cattle, Sweden and 

 Denmark in 1847 by English stock, and later again by 

 Enghsh and Dutch, Norway in 1860 by infected Ayrshires, 

 Oldenburg in 1858, and Schleswig in 1859, in each case 

 by Ayrshires, the Cape of Good Hope in 1854, Australia 



