DISEASES OF CATTLE. 13 



cure seventy-five per cent, of the sick cattle in England 

 Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and succeeded in curing 

 greater proportion than the contract called for. 



The assertion made by ignorant persons that the malad; 

 was " Spanish disease" is erroneous, since Spain was com 

 paratively the least afflicted with the epidemic, and Spanish 

 cattle were preferred to those of Holland, East Frieslanc 

 Oldenburg and Holstein during my residence in Englanc 

 It has also been asserted that the disease was the pox, an 

 killing was recommended, because no cure was possible fo 

 that disease. My experience in thousands of cases where 

 perfect cure was effected enables me to contradict this. T 

 prove my assertion, I will offer to cure ninety per cent, o 

 animals affected with the epidemic. The epidemic has als 

 been frequently mistaken for spleen disease. The latte 

 broke out among the United States cattle droves after th 

 surrender of Richmond, and I succeeded in curing moi 

 than five thousand head in Alexandria during the month 

 of July and August. 



In Europe, more particularly in Prussia and Russia, th 

 districts where epidemics appear are, as it is termed, er 

 closed by a cordon ; that is, no cattle or food, such as ha] 

 straw, etc., are allowed to pass over the boundary of the ii 

 fected district until the superintending veterinary surgeo 

 declares that no new cases have occurred for ninety days. A 

 inspection by an experienced veterinarian who is thorough] 

 conversant with the disease would be very desirable, i 

 order to prevent the spread of the epidemic to other State 



THE CATTLE POX. 



The cattle or cow pox belongs to the rarer and less in 

 portant diseases, and it easily disappears again spontam 



