114 CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PHTHISIS IN CATTLE. 
sure. It was with great difficulty that any liquid could be intro- 
duced into the mouth. The tongue was covered with a coat of 
grey sediment, except at the edges, where it was red. The eyes 
were dull and a little retracted within the orbit. The membrana 
nictitans covered a considerable part of the eye. The pulse was 
frequent, hard, and full. The animal staggered as he walked. 
The al vine and urinary evacuations were in their natural state, and 
it rarely attempted to suck, and then was unable to accomplish its 
object. In these symptoms I easily recognised, and yet to my 
great surprise, an attack of tetanus. The friend and medical at- 
tendant on the proprietor happening to pass, his opinion was asked, 
and he perfectly agreed with me as to the nature of the disease. 
We informed the owner of the serious character of the disease, 
and then employed the following treatment: — we abstracted a 
pound and a half of blood from the jugular vein. We prepared a 
drink composed of four ounces of manna and three drachms of 
opium, dissolved in warm water, and of which we gave a twelfth 
part every hour. We administered every two hours an injection 
composed of a decoction of mallow roots, with a tea-spoonful of 
laudanum, and we fomented him well with hot water about the 
belly and chest. 
The symptoms, far from diminishing in intensity, increased until 
ten o’clock at night, when he died. We examined him on the fol- 
lowing morning, and found nothing remarkable, except a little 
more serosity than usual in the cranial cavity. We could form no 
satisfactory idea of the cause of the malady. 
Mem. de la Soc. Vet. du Calvados , 1837. 
The Contagiousness of Phthisis in Cattle. 
By Professor DELAFOND, of Alfort. 
Among the serious and fatal maladies to which cattle are ex- 
posed, that of the chest, known by the name of peripneumony , 
occupies a prominent situation. Existing from time immemorial 
in the mountainous countries of Jura, the Vosges, Dauphiny, and 
among the milch cows of Paris and its environs, it has within the 
last ten years spread into most of the departments that are rich in 
cattle. In most of the localities where considerable traffic in cattle 
is carried on, whether for milk or for fattening, this disease exists ; 
while in those which are employed in the exportation of young 
beasts, as Cotenten, La Vendee, Brittany, and Limousin, peripneu- 
mony is unknown. All the departments which furnish our milch 
cows, as that of the Seine, the Seine and Oise, the Somme, and the 
North, are a prey to this fearful malady. The beautiful milch 
cows of the vallev el Bray have not been spared. This rich valley, 
