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naturally excited the solicitude of the Government. The Minister 
of Agriculture and Commerce lost no time in procuring information 
on the subject, both in France and abroad. We subjoin the ex- 
tract of a letter from M. Imlin, a distinguished veterinary surgeon, 
of Strasburg, who is in constant communication with Germany : — • 
‘ Strasburg, Dec. 28, 1844. Typhus positively prevails in Poland, 
Silesia, and Bohemia. The German Journals have referred to it 
since the close of autumn, and they now mention, as an on dit , its 
appearance in Austria, Bavaria, Prussia, and Saxony. Never- 
theless, those rumours are not confirmed by any official report. 
The accounts brought by the German journals are evidently ex- 
aggerated. The director of the Veterinary School at Munich 
(Bavaria), with whom I am in correspondence, does not mention a 
word either of typhus or sanitary cordon in a letter which I received 
from him in the beginning of the month. The Prague Gazette of 
the 10th instant, contains the first official report on the epidemic 
prevailing in Bohemia. It results from that document, that previ- 
ous to the 24th of November, the typhus had attacked 1544 heads 
of cattle, seventy- five of which had been killed, and sixty were still 
labouring under the disease. No authentic document makes any 
mention of its having reached Bavaria. W urtemburg and the Duchy 
of Baden have as yet adopted no measures of precaution, so that 
our eastern departments are only menaced by the journals. An 
epidemic which affects the mouth of the cattle, and the ‘ pleuro- 
pneumonia/ have appeared at different points of our department, 
and I am often called to treat these diseases. The German vete- 
rinary journals not having been published since the last quarter, 
have not yet spoken of the malady/ ” “ However re-assuring this 
intelligence may be,” adds the Moniteur, “ the Government is about 
to send to Germany M. Yvard, Inspector-General of the Veterinary 
Schools, and M. Renault, Director of the Veterinary School of 
Alfort, to study the progress of the epidemic, and the administra- 
tive measures adopted for the purpose of checking it.” 
The German Universal Gazette of the 28th ult. announces that 
the epidemic which had been raging a considerable time amongst 
the horned cattle in Gallicia, Austria, Silesia, and Moravia, had 
likewise appeared in Poland, in several districts near Warsaw. 
The Prussian Government had established quarantines, in order to 
prevent the spreading of the contagion to the Prussian provinces.” — 
Times. 
The Presse publishes an article on the danger to be apprehended 
from the invasion of the epidemic which is now raging amongst 
the oxen in Lower Hungary, and which is known there by the 
name of contagious typhus fever. M. Moll, the professor of agricul- 
