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Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Little or no diminution has taken place in the extent of 
the cattle plague in Eastern Europe. We learn that the 
disease is still very rife in Transylvania, Buckowina, and 
Galicia, but declining in Poland. 
In Belgium the disease is on the increase, being particu- 
larly severe in the village of Battincourt. Strict sanitary 
measures are being adopted. 
The Governor of Luxembourg has also prohibited the 
movements of cattle in the communes of Muno, Sainte-Cecile, 
and Chassepierre, in consequence of the prevalence of the 
cattle plague in the French village Pure, near to the frontier. 
Nor are the northern departments of France alone affected 
with this scourge ; the information from Brest on February 
10th was to the effect that the disease was making such 
progress among the large droves of cattle which had been 
brought together for the relief of Paris, that 'it was found 
practically impossible to bury the dead sufficiently fast, and 
that the Government had in consequence appropriated two 
old war-ships for the reception of the carcases, which, when 
laden, were to be towed out to sea and sunk. 
Since then the papers further record that the disease con- 
tinues to exist in a most virulent form at Landerneau, in the 
neighbourhood of Brest. That 8000 cattle, collected together 
for re-victualling Paris, were more or less affected, and that 
about a hundred were dying daily. 
SPLENIC APOPLEXY. 
Numerous cases of this disease have occurred recently in 
different parts of the country, and under circumstances the very 
opposite to each other, as well as among animals varying 
greatly as to age and condition. One correspondent informs 
us that two feeding heifers, which had been purchased about 
three months previously, died very suddenly within three 
days of each other. The first was found dead in the morning, 
having been thought to be perfectly w T ell over-night, and the 
other sunk within a few hours of being observed to be 
unwell. Both animals exhibited on dissection well-marked 
