336 THE LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN SWITZERLAND. 
fore, was appointed to tend on this animal only, and was to 
approach none of the others. After the lapse of a few weeks 
the cow next to the suspected beast became ill, and eventu- 
ally died of inflammation of the chest and lungs. Orders 
were immediately given to slaughter all the other cows which 
were in the stable, and it was found that the one that had flrst 
been taken ill was exceedingly infected, its next neighbour not 
so much, and the two that had been farthest off were quite 
healthy. 
One of the diseased cows was six months advanced in preg- 
nancy, and the lungs of the foetus had already begun to be 
diseased. From this period the canton of Freiburg began to be 
regarded as free from contagion, and all quarantine regulations 
were removed. 
In October, a cow was found labouring under this disease in 
Bulle, a place situated at the foot of the infected mountain. 
The authorities, having been informed of this, had three other 
cows belonging to the same stable slaughtered, two of which 
were already infected. The first of these four animals had been 
shut up in a stall next to that in which the beforementioned 
second of the two beasts passed one night on its way from the 
mountain; but the two had never come into immediate contact 
with each other. 
In the canton of Waadt the disease seemed to have confined 
itself to Denezy, if we except the case of a young heifer that 
had been bought, and, as it seemed wasting away, was slaugh- 
tered. It was found to have inflammation of the chest; but the 
disease had appeared under so chronic a form that the veterinary 
surgeon did not believe it to be the contagious malady. 
Pathological Anatomy. — My observations coincide with 
those of the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire Pratique, October 
and November 1840 ; with the exception of some slight differ- 
ence in our estimation of the symptoms. The appearances which 
I have observed in different lungs agree precisely with the obser- 
vations there recorded. When first I wrote, I was uncertain as 
to the origin of the inflammation, but now I am of opinion — 
3. That the disease is a more or less acute or chronic inflam- 
mation of the diaphragm, the pleura, and the prolongations by 
which they are united to the lobes of the lungs. This inflam- 
mation appears, however, soon to pass away from the pleura, and 
even from every part connected with it, and it is that circum- 
stance which has caused many French veterinary surgeons to be 
of opinion that it occasionally has its seat solely in the lungs, 
and that the pleura is not at all affected. 
2. That the inflammation is not communicated from the pleura 
