1889.] Schweine-Seuche and the ''Swine Plague!' 891 
disease just described cannot fail to be recognized, as it seems to 
be the only severe disease of the lungs among swine of which we 
have any knowledge." 
Now, when we read all those quotations, and compare them 
with the statements of the essential lesion of the German" Schweine- 
seuche," and when we read that the government claims the germ 
of its second " wide-spread plague " is identical with that of the 
German disease, it does certainly look as if the government work 
has been honest and scientific ; even more so, in fact, than w^hen 
it carelessly claimed of its non-existing micrococcus of 1880 to 
1885, that "the evidence furnished is all that should be neces- 
sary to decide a scientific question of this kind." But as then, 
so now, the work of the government is not and has not been 
either careful or scientific, if w^e can believe a single one of its 
assertions, for though it did give " evidence which should decide 
a scientific question of this kind," although it does seem to show 
in what we have quoted that the German and government plagues 
are really and truly pulmonary in character, and nothing else, 
still they make other equally honest and scientific assertions 
which, if the German evidence of Professors Loeffler and Schiitz, 
and these two later observers, can be taken as correct, must cer- 
tainly fqrce any honest man to see that the government's asser- 
tion as to its " swine plague " being an " infectious pneumonia," 
and identical with the German disease, is neither careful nor 
scientific ; for, in that same report of 1887, these honest (?) ob- 
servers tell us of Intestinal lesions I " In the severe types of this 
disease there are very extensive lesions of the large intestines." 
And a government observer did say, in April, 1888, that some 
investigators think that the bowel lesions of hog cholera and 
the lung lesions of infectious pneumonia are caused by the same 
germ. 
Do such assertions look like true, honest, and scientific state- 
ments ? Can any ordinary layman see any signs of identity 
between a disease in which " there are very severe lesions in the 
large intestine," and this German disease, in which there was not 
a single disturbance in the intestines in a single one of 52 hogs 
most carefully examined, as well as in those studied with per- 
