Report on the Cattle Disease in the Island of Ci/prus. 4G9 
and placed among the cattle of Mr. Richard Mattei. Four days 
afterwards several of the latter were attacked, and the disease 
took a firm footing: in the village. 
Many suggestions were made respecting the treatment of this 
disease, and many kinds of medicines were tried, by way of 
experiment, on animals afflicted with the malady ; but up to the 
present everything has failed in producing any practical result. 
Ferri sulphas and acid, sidphuric, with a little laudanum, seemed 
at times to have some effect ; and the peasants themselves had 
great faith in vinegar, a small cupful of which they administered 
internally every morning, while the eyes, nostrils, and mouth of 
the affected animal were washed with it several times a day. 
After very careful consideration of the subject, and an 
experience of cattle-plague extending over a period of six 
months, during which I have had numerous opportunities of 
studying the disease in its different phases in various parts 
of the island, I have come to the decided conclusion that no 
cure of any kind ought to be attempted, but that immediately 
an animal shows the slightest sign of being affected with the 
malady, it should be slaughtered, as by trying to save one 
animal a whole locality is frequently infected with disease. 
I have reason to believe that inoculation may possibly prove 
in the course of time a successful preventive against the disease, 
but I propose speaking of this kind of treatment at a future date, 
when I hope to have obtained more positive results from experi- 
ments I have already made, and others that are now in progress. 
I have examined the bodies of over one hundred animals 
after death, and have found almost invariably that the interior 
of the carcasses presented the same appearance. The inside of 
the mouth and pharynx were of a darkish red colour. The 
tongue was flabby, and covered with a yellowish exudation. 
I saw nothing remarkable about the three first stomachs, but on 
the fourth I noticed several deep red blotches, and in some 
cases it was spotted with small ulcers, which forcibly reminded 
me of those so common in cases of catarrhal inflammation of the 
human stomach. I was surprised to find the small intestines 
generally speaking free from disease. The bronchial mucous 
membrane was frequently injected and covered with tough 
mucus. The lungs were congested and swollen, and their 
interlobular tissue was distended with air. The heart was 
relaxed and discoloured. The brain appeared to be unaffected, 
although it was more than usually injected with blood, and the 
meninges were of a reddish colour. I noticed no particular 
change about any of the other parts, except that the body was 
generally more red than is customary, as were also the urinary 
and generative organs. 
