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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA; OR, EPIDEMIC AMONG 
CATTLE. 
[ From the Mark Lane Express , March 1846.] 
HAVING had a six months’ visit of this fatal disease among my 
cattle, and consequently got a little experienced in its first symp- 
toms, progress, and results, I think it my duty to my brother 
farmers and the country generally, to add my mite to what has 
already been published regarding this most fatal epidemic. 
Having had some young stock grazing at a distance of three or 
four miles from my farm last summer, I was informed by the park- 
keeper, about the beginning of August, that one of my cattle was not 
feeding so well as usual ; and on examining it, I found its coat star- 
ing a little, and that it had a slight low cough ; and as the weather 
had been very wet for some time, thought it had got a bad cold, and 
that it would be advisable to take it home, where I might have it 
better attended to ; consequently, it was sent for, and put in a dry 
shed by itself, and I am not aware that any of the other cattle about 
the place ever saw it or was near it. I then had it bled and phy- 
sicked ; and as it was eating a little grass, thought it would soon 
get better. On the next day, as the fever w r as very strong and 
the physic had operated, I took some more blood, and had still 
good hopes of its recovery. However, by the third day it had 
again got very costive, the excrement being very black and foetid, 
and the pulse beating 1 12. I began to lose hope of it, but gave 
another dose of physic (Epsom salts and ginger), which again ope- 
rated, but without producing any abatement of fever. As I could 
not think of taking any more blood, and as it had not eaten any thing 
for two days, I fed it with oatmeal gruel until the sixth day, when 
it died. On opening it, I found the lungs about twice the usual 
size, the left being much the largest, and both gorged with blood as 
black as pitch, and quite in a state of corruption : the pleura also 
very much inflamed, and adhering to the lining at the sides in a 
great many places, and the chest filled with water ; the heart, 
liver, and bowels all appeared entire ; and, being satisfied that it 
was some incurable disease, had the skin taken off, and the carcass 
buried; and as it was but a year-old stirk, I gave myself little 
more concern about it ; but having heard that two cattle died in 
the adjoining field where it was, l kept a strict watch over the rest, 
but never saw any thing the matter with them. 
Well, in four weeks after, I noticed one of my cows a little dry and 
staring in the coat, and not feeding as usual ; and on observing her 
stools, state ot her pulse, and her general appearance, soon per- 
ceived she was in for the same disease ; and as she was in fair 
