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disease, goes on to say, “ I remember, last spring, a* farmer buying 
a cow that was evidently sickening of this disorder; and she was 
put into a cow-house with several other cattle. Soon after this 
every one became affected. Mr. Hales, of Oswestry, in the same 
Journal, page 589, thus writes : “ That fatal malady which, having 
made such havoc among the cattle in some parts of Cheshire, is 
now penetrating into Shropshire.” 
Before the conclusion of the year this disease appears to have 
reached nearly every part of England. 
Mr. Holmes, of Thirsk, Yorkshire, in April 1843 (VETERI- 
NARIAN, vol. xvi, p. 217), after noticing that the stock in his 
neighbourhood had been looking very healthy, states that pleuro- 
pneumonia was becoming very prevalent, “but that nearly all the 
cattle attacked were Irish, for he had scarcely been called upon to 
attend an English or a Scotch cow or ox.” 
This disease does not appear to have entered Scotland until 
April 1843 (Veterinarian, vol. xvi, p. 278). Mr. Fulton, of 
Wigtown, in a communication to Professor Dick, of Edinburgh, 
states that this disease had just made its appearance in that 
vicinity ; and the Professor, in his answer, does not mention having 
seen a single case, at least in Scotland. However, in the same 
vol., p. 282, we find that it has been close upon the borders for a 
long time. Mr. Carlisle, of Wigton, in Cumberland, thus Avrites: 
“ Its first appearance in this part of the country was among some 
Irish cattle ; and one or two of my employers purchased some of 
the infected ones, not knowing that any thing was amiss at the 
time. They were sent off to pasture on the farm, and, in two or 
three days, one of them was observed to be unwell. He was 
brought home, bled, and physicked, but soon died. Little notice- 
was taken of him, and his remains unattended to. In the 
course of a short time, two more became ill : they were brought 
home, and also died. Presently the disease shewed itself among 
his other stock. This was in December last, and he has since lost 
nearly thirty head of cattle, not more than five or six recovering. 
The treatment was strictly depletive.” 
Thus we are led to infer that this disease commenced in Ireland; 
and, as most of the Irish cattle are imported at Liverpool, we first 
hear of its existence in that part of our isle. In a short time it 
finds its way into Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Middle- 
sex; but is not heard of in any of these parts until 1842, although 
it had been raging in Ireland for nearly twelve months before. 
Thence it, not very rapidly, spread over almost every part of this 
country, but did not reach Scotland for nearly another twelve 
months. 
I shall now, in as few observations as possible, endeavour to give 
