IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 
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diseased, that the fore quarters were of no value. The remaining 
forty-six were sold to the butchers, and, in a few weeks, all were 
killed. Several of them were hoosing. Their lungs were found 
more or less diseased, while the lungs of several others appeared 
perfectly sound. 
On the following Saturday, July 22d, Mr. G. bought twenty- 
three others, all nearly fat, and looking exceedingly healthy ; but 
the man who drove them home observed that they were nearly all 
hoosing. They were placed in a marsh by themselves. On 
the 4th of August one of them was attacked and after a few days 
illness died. After this several others were attacked, and, being 
fat, were slaughtered. 
Case III. — -Mr. F — , of N — ■, bought at Norwich stock market 
thirty Irish budds. After about a fortnight, July 29th, three of 
them were attacked with this disease, and, in the following month, 
fourteen others. They had been put into the yards with the cows, 
and several of them became infected. Fresh cases were occurring 
almost every week. Mr. F. finally determined to sell the whole off 
the farm. He then tarred the boards, washed them, &c. After seve- 
ral months he bought other neat stock, and all of them have been 
healthy. 
Case IV. — Mr. G — , of C — , bought at Norwich market, in 
July 1843, fifteen year-old Irish steers. During the two follow- 
ing months, eight of them died of this disease. They were attend- 
ed by a cowleech. The treatment was strictly depletive. The 
remaining seven were sent to Norwich market, and sold. After 
this, two bullocks were attacked ; they were Scots, nearly fat, and 
were slaughtered : the right lobe of one of their lungs weighed fifty- 
three pounds. In October two others were also attacked ; here 
the beasts were lean : they were treated as hereafter directed, and 
both recovered. 
Case V. — Mr. G — , of H — ■ Hall, bought of an Irish stock- 
dealer, on August 22d, twelve Irish beasts, consisting of nine year- 
old steers, and three two-year-old heifers. They were at the time 
in apparent health, and were not allowed to pasture with any other 
stock. On September 3d, one of the steers was found almost dead. 
He died on the following day. On the 27th, one of the heifers 
was attacked. I now closely examined all the rest, who were 
looking very fresh in condition ; but, on putting them in quick 
motion, the respiration of two of them was much more than natu- 
rally increased, and they frequently coughed. These symptoms, 
with the characters of the sounds furnished by auscultation, con- 
firmed, in my opinion, the existence of pleuro-pneumonia in its in- 
cipient stage ; of which I apprised Mr. G., who, rather than hazard 
the safety of his other cattle, ordered the heifer to be immediately 
