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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1857. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS IN CATTLE. 
We wish in an especial manner to direct the attention of 
our readers to the circumstance that a most destructive 
cattle epizootic, new to the present generation of English- 
men, wdll probably ere long be introduced into this country 
from the Continent. The disease, which passes under the 
ordinary term of <e murrain/’ possesses, according to the 
best and most recent veterinary authorities, most of the fea- 
tures of a malignant typhoid fever, and has consequently been 
appropriately designated te contagious typhus.” The subject 
has already been brought before Parliament, as will be seen 
by a report of its proceedings, w hich w r e publish elsewhere. 
We confess that the circumstance does not take us by sur- 
prise, for, from the time it was ascertained that the malady 
was existing in the Crimea, Turkey, and adjacent countries 
during the late war, we felt assured it would extend to those 
Kingdoms and States where it had been unknowm, except by 
name, for years before ; such being the antecedents of its 
history. It may be remembered that, at the period alluded 
to, at the solicitation of the Royal Agricultural Society, and 
also of the Consul-General of France, we commenced an 
inquiry into the subject, and forwarded a printed circular, 
containing a series of questions, to the several veterinary 
surgeons attached to the Army of the East, with a view to 
the obtainment of such information as w r ould lead to the 
adoption of rightly devised means to arrest the progress of 
the pest. Unforeseen difficulties met us in this inquiry, and 
it, like many others undertaken during the first few 7 months 
that our brave soldiers w T ere encamped before Sebastopol, 
proved abortive. The state of things at that time is thus 
graphically described by the Times Commissioner : cf On all 
