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THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASE TN FRANCE. 
These two days having passed, l was almost certain of there being 
a week, or nearly so, without having new cases. The disease 
ceased in this herd, but it then attacked my third herd, com- 
posed of twenty-three cows. Three were attacked, then another 
from time to time ; but more than half of my fifty cows have not 
been ill at all. 
Can this fact, which although rare is perfectly true, be attri- 
buted to the collection of individuals bought in different places, 
not having been brought up in the same localities and on which 
disease did not have the same influence? 
It will be very difficult to admit this, when we find that M. Louis 
Dammeme, my neighbour, found himself precisely in the same 
position with myself, and that, among more than sixty cows which 
he possessed, two only have escaped the epizootic. With another 
of my neighbours, one only was attacked ; and there, with him, 
the disease was confined to that one. 
In the case of the mayor of Saint Pierre Dumont, the epizoo- 
tic shewed itself during the snowy weather, in a pasture ground 
situated on the border of the sea, and over more than two leagues 
of ground the animals became infected. In the course of ten days, 
two other herds of cows belonging to him, that were at grass, 
were put in the stable, and his calves of one year, those of two and 
three years, and his lean pigs. They were all attacked, his fat pigs 
only being spared. There were not any cases of disease among 
his nearest neighbours, with the exception of M. Viet’s herd, 
every cow of which was affected. The epizootic then ceased, and 
did not re-appear in this canton until more than six months after- 
wards. More than sixty horned beasts were attacked in three 
days at the farm of M. Lecanu, at Maisy. 
M. Carbonnel had five herds of cattle separated from each 
other, but the remaining four flocks presented several cases of the 
disease; and, what is a remarkable thing, the same day and the 
same morning produced more or less disease in twelve herds in 
the neighbourhood. 
If 1 wished to describe all the irregularities in the march of 
this epizootic, I should pass in review all the cow-houses in the 
neighbourhood, for in all of them, and everywhere, the disease 
has presented very different characters. This, at least, is what 
I have observed among more than six thousand horned beasts 
and six hundred pigs, which I have had in my possession. I have 
confined myself to the narration of facts, sufficient, to enable us 
to appreciate the strange character of this disease. 
Now let us see what are the symptoms of this malady. 
Symptoms . — At the first appearance, the milch cow at grass 
experiences sudden depression and a staggering gait ; an abun- 
