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THE CATTLE MURRAIN OF INDIA. 
Benares outbreak, 1869, they were associated, cases of gootee 
lingering on several weeks after puschima had disappeared. 
Are these diseases analogous or identical with the rinder- 
pest of Europe ? 
Mr. Gudgin, on puschima in Birmah, 1866, says, “It is 
analogous to, or identical with, the rinderpest raging in 
England (1866), exhibits the same symptoms, attacks the 
same structures, runs its course in the same period, is cha- 
racterised by the same amount of mortality, and displays the 
same post-mortem lesions/'’* 
Mr. Thacker, on the Madras Presidency outbreak, 1867, 
frequently alludes to the disease “ as a type of rinderpest/'’ 
Mr. Earrel reported rinderpest in the Sunderbunds, 1869. 
Mr. Barrow reported rinderpest in Benares, 1869. 
Other writers speak quite as confidently, but being non- 
professionals their opinions are valueless. 
It is important to note Dr. McLeod’s conclusions, as at 
one time he thought puschima was rinderpest. He says of 
the Calcutta epizootic, 1865, it “differs little from rinderpest/ - ’ 
After comparing Dr. Murchison’s Report of the Royal Com- 
mission, he considers “the cattle plague of England more 
closely resembled gootee than puschima;” further on he 
says, “and puschima, if it is really void of a cutaneous 
eruption, which I doubt, is in that particular different from 
rinderpest.” 
Having been placed on a Committee of Inquiry into the 
Benares epizootic of 1869 (during Mr. Barrow’s absence on 
sick leave), I will very briefly give its history and a few 
details from observation. 
The existence of the diseases in villages in the Benares 
division, had been reported to Government some weeks 
before its appearance in the Government Commissariat Cattle 
Lines, by the collector, Mr. Maynard Brodhurst (to whose 
inquiries I am much indebted for information of the malady). 
It appeared amongst a herd of 296 slaughter cattle, 184 of 
these had been purchased at a fair ninety miles away, and 
arrived on February 18th. Between March the* 13th and 
21st thirty-five beasts died, being two thirds of the number 
that sickened (from Mr. Barrow’s report the disease appears 
to have been puschima) ; it broke out in the fresh arrivals, 
and spread to the old stock. Eighteen animals were destroyed 
by Mr. Barrow’s advice, and the plague stayed. 
On April 19th another herd of 292 arrived; none were ill 
during nine days in March, although the diseases existed in 
villages en route ; between April 24th and May 5th, 77 sick- 
* I. am unable to get a complete copy of his report. 
