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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1871. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — ClCEEO. 
THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN PRANCE. 
The Paris Academy of Sciences is said to be occupying 
its attention with this matter ; but unless more clear views 
are entertained of the true pathology of the malady, and 
especially of its extraordinary infectious nature, it will be 
many days ere France will have freed herself of the cattle 
plague. 
According to an article which appeared in the Journal of 
the Society of Arts , Professor Bouley — one of the most able 
of the French veterinary surgeons, and recently the Inspector- 
General of the Veterinary Schools — would appear to enter- 
tain ideas of the curability of the plague and the non-neces- 
sity of the destruction of the carcases even of diseased cattle. 
The professor’s statements respecting the non-spontaneous 
origin of cattle plague in Western Europe are true to the 
letter ; but if his opinions are correctly reported with regard 
to the non-necessity of burying or destroying the carcases of 
plague-infected animals, it must be affirmed that nothing 
can be more illusionary or dangerous. 
We are the more surprised at these statements knowing 
the promptness with which he dealt with the malady on its 
introduction into France in 1865 — a promptness which limited 
the loss to only forty-eight animals. That full justice may 
be done to one who stands so high in the scientific world, we 
give the following extract from the article referred to. M. 
Bouley declares — 
“ The disease to be endemic in all that part of Europe 
comprised between the Ural and Carpathian mountains ; that 
it is permanent, and constantly perpetuated by contagion. 
At the same time, he asserts that the disease has not the 
same serious effect on the cattle of the Steppes as it has upon 
other races. In Paris the mortality caused by it has been 
terrible, not more than 1 to 2 per cent, of the animals 
attacked having survived. In reply to those who have asserted 
