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Report on the Cattle Disease in the Island of Cyprus. 
but seems unable to swallow. A constant diarrhoea of fetid 
greenish matter sets in, and the urine is scarce and highly 
coloured. These symptoms increase in violence up to the 
fifth or sixth day, when the animal expires completely ex- 
hausted. 
1 have noticed that in some cases there are signs of ameliora- 
tion about the third or fourth day ; these, however, soon dis- 
appear, and the animal relapses into its original condition. 
Death generally occurs about the fourth or fifth day, but it 
sometimes happens on the third, and I have seen rare cases in 
which the disease assumed a chronic aspect, lasting for two 
or three weeks. Favourable cases are indicated by a gradual 
decrease of alarming symptoms, and a return of appetite. I 
have noticed on all animals that have got safely through the 
disease and are restored to health, a cutaneous irruption on 
various parts of the body. I have seen no animals that have 
once had the disease attacked a second time. From several 
experiments that I have made, and of which I give the account 
of two below, I feel convinced that the disease is transmitted by 
animals that have been restored to health, up to the eighteenth 
day after the disease has left them. 
Example No. 1, — The cow, which was the only animal saved 
out of the five yoke of cattle in Demetrion's khan, suffered 
severely from the disease. On the fifth day she dropped a nine 
months' calf, and then gradually got better. On the twelfth 
day she was completely restored to health, with the exception of 
the cutaneous irruption on the body which I have mentioned 
above. She was then isolated, and when she had been alone 
for ten days I was asked by the owners if I would allow them to 
put another animal with her, their idea still being that their 
cattle had been poisoned. Being anxious to convince them of 
the contrary, and curious to make the experiment, I had the 
cow placed in a clean stable, and, after carefully examining her 
proposed companion, and finding it a perfectly healthy animal, 
I put the two together. Four days afterwards the new beast 
began to show signs of sickness, and on the eighth day it died. 
The cow was again isolated, and after being alone for a fort- 
night, the irruption being then perfectly cured, another animal 
was placed with her, and it is still alive. 
JExpcrimcnt No. 2.— At Apalestra Chiflik (farm), a small calf 
about twelve months old, which had had a severe attack of the 
disease, was the only animal saved out of sixteen head of cattle. 
After getting through the illness, the irruption I have men- 
tioned broke out in a rather violent form. The calf, on the 
seventeenth day after its recovery from the disease, was taken 
secretly by the owner to Kouklia, about fifteen miles distant, 
