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due to infected cattle being sent from Switzerland. In Ireland 
the disease has reappeared, and the cows in the Dublin dairies 
are suffering severely from the outbreak. The disease has 
also made its appearance in the county of Kildare, in the 
midst of a grazing district. 
The number of centres of the affection in Great Britain 
continues to lessen, but there are still fifty-four counties more 
or less affected. In some places the disease has assumed a 
malignant form, and several calves and young pigs have died 
of it. 
PLEURO-PNEUM ONI A. 
A further decline has taken place in the number of centres 
of pleuro-pneumonia since our last report. The disease has 
existence in fewer counties, and the number of animals at- 
tacked is also less than during the past month. In the London 
dairies an increase has, however, been observed. Pleuro- 
pneumonia is likewise reported to have shown itself in some 
fresh places in Holland and Pomerania. In Ireland the 
malady is still very rife and fatal. 
SCROFULA IN A COW AND PIG. 
We are indebted to Mr. Stock, M.R.C.Y.S., Lewes, and to 
Mr. E. Taylor, M.R.C.V.S., Bury St. Edmunds, for some in- 
teresting specimens of scrofula in the cow and pig. The 
former gentleman writes that he was called to make a, post- 
mortem examination of a cow which was thought to have 
been the subject of pleuro-pneumonia, and that on opening 
the chest he found the lungs, heart, and serous lining of the 
cavity, one mass of disease from adventitious deposit of a 
scrofulous nature. 
It was with much difficulty that the heart and its cover- 
ings could be separated from the lungs and the rest of the 
mass, but on this being done, the heart was found to weigh 
26 lbs., and the lungs upwards of 52 lbs. 
The deposit had taken on a columnar form on the pleural 
surface of the lungs, due probably to the pressure exerted by 
the ribs during its formation. It was remarkably hard, gritty 
to the feel, and of a yellow colour, and appeared to be “ part 
and parcel” of the ribs. On other parts, and particularly at 
the apex of the heart, the deposit had a nodulated character. 
