394 REPORT OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL, BERLIN, 1839. 
acute rheumatism, 10 of tetanus (out of 12), 1 of injury of the 
withers, 1 of a large wound in the throat, which tore the wind- 
pipe, the oesophagus, and the larger vessels and nerves of the 
right side of the throat. 
Among the cattle 1 cow died of phthisis, 1 goat of gastro- 
enteritic fever, 1 of lameness, and a deer of lameness in the 
withers. 
The chief part of the dogs that were lost died of distemper; 
the remainder of inflammation of the stomach, intestines, or lungs, 
or dropsy, gastro-enteritic fever, diarrhoea, consumption, lame- 
ness, or apoplexy. 
Among the animals brought to the College for examination, 
138 horses and 49 dogs were perfectly sound ; 82 horses and 
l cow were suffering from various complaints which were, how- 
ever, only of a trifling nature ; 51 horses had the staggers; 16 
were suffering from difficult breathing; 8 from chronic inflamma- 
tion of the eyes ; 4 from gutta serena ; 19 from glanders and 
worms, and 2 from acute fever. The 113 horses spoken of in 
class C were only used for the purpose of practice, and then 
destroyed. 
In this year (1840), 55 horses and 10 dogs have been brought 
to the institution for medical treatment, and 2 horses for exa- 
mination. 
The prevailing character of the diseases in 1839 was alike in 
every month. The animals (especially horses) were first attacked 
with a catarrhal or rheumatic complaint, which in process of 
time took on a gastro-enteritic character, or else became compli- 
cated with gastro- enteritis. The characters of pure inflamma- 
tion were rarely seen, or, if they were, they usually existed but a 
very short time, and assumed a typhoid character. The conta- 
gious diseases were the influenza and mallenders in horses; pul- 
monary consumption, dysentery, and, now and then, foot-rot, 
and inflammation of the mouth, in cattle; sheep-pock, inflam- 
mation and worms in the intestinal canal, putrid fever, bad foot- 
rot and lameness in sheep and lambs ; gangrene in pigs ; dis- 
temper in dogs, but not a single dog laboured under rabies. 
A very fatal, and for the most part unknown, disease shewed 
itself among birds in March and April. 
The most prevalent of all these diseases were the influenza 
among horses and the sheep-pock in sheep. The latter had 
shewed itself occasionally during the first and second quarter of 
the year ; but towards the end of the third quarter and during the 
whole of the fourth it spread rapidly in every direction, and was 
particularly prevalent towards the north-east and south-west, 
where it not unfrequently assumed a very serious and fatal cha- 
