223 PLEURO-PNEUMONIA, OR EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
fail: when attacked, they will never be heard to cry, although 
separated from the rest, even in its early stages. As soon as it is 
fully proved to be the fact, have him either sold, if at all in condi- 
tion, or put him under ground as soon as possible ; clean the place 
where he was recently kept, well washing it with lime-and- water, 
and, after a space of three months, bleed all the stock again. 
Now, Sir, if these observations will not occupy too much space 
in your columns, I may, perhaps* be allowed to make a few 
remarks on the origin of the epidemic, and suggest a way to get 
rid of it. 
It is a disease of recent date in this country: you will find it 
about as old as the introduction of foreign cattle : you will find a 
disease called chronic pleuro pneumonia mentioned by M. Lecoq, 
teacher of the Veterinary School at Lyons, which was very pre- 
valent on the Continent in 1833, and originated in Franche Comte, 
where the cattle are worked, and then driven long journeys to 
market, in want both of food and water, and, being naturally sub- 
ject to diseases of the chest, a great many fell victims to this fatal 
disease by the way; and, as the same breeds of cattle exist, and 
the same methods of working and driving are still customary, we 
can have very little doubt but the same diseases exist likewise; 
and as the importation of these cattle is greatly on the increase, 
and, under the proposed alteration, will go on at an immense rate 
to increase, so we may expect pleuro pneumonia to increase in a 
like ratio. Besides those which have already fallen victims to it 
out of my small stock, I could mention twelve or fourteen farmers 
and cowkeepers in this immediate neighbourhood who have suf- 
fered much heavier losses from the disease than I have; and no 
one is safe in buying cattle in a public market. If its ravages 
continue to spread as they have been doing hitherto, it will furnish 
a reason to Sir Robert Peel why the price of cattle is getting still 
higher in the face of so many importations, and may well make 
him pause before admitting so many more as may be expected, if 
they are admitted duty free. 
No one at all versed in the annals of this country can forget the 
sad consequences of the continental murrain of 1745, when hun- 
dreds of thousands of cattle were swept away ; and Government 
found it imperative to order every diseased beast to be killed, and 
gave remuneration to the owners, when no fewer than 80,000 cat- 
tle were killed, besides what died of the disease. In my humble 
opinion, the disease now prevalent is one of an equally malignant 
character ; and unless, under the good providence of God, we get 
rid of it by some means, every one concerned for the good of his 
country must feel alarmed to think that it may again be laid waste 
