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EPIDEMIC CATARRH IN HORSES. 
to the exclusion of all other cattle , as it is deemed necessary to re- 
move cattle from their infected stalls to purer air.” 
In July, 1856, Schleswig placed the importations into 
her territory from Holstein under restrictions; but as these 
also proved to be insufficient, the Minister of this Duchy, in 
March of the present year, forbade the importations entirely. 
In August, 1856, Denmark, by the Minister of the Inte- 
rior, likewise ordered that no cattle would be permitted to 
enter the kingdom from Holstein, unless they were accom- 
panied by a certificate of a veterinary surgeon, stating that 
they were in good health when exported, and also by the 
certificate of a magistrate, that the district from which they 
came was free from disease. And in September following, 
proclamation w 7 as made to a similar effect by “the Senator 
of the District of the Marshland of Hamburg,” a copy of 
which has been given above. 
This succinct history of the proceedings of foreign govern- 
ments, enables us to trace to their probable origin those 
restrictive laws which have created so great solicitude in 
England. We could hardly have supposed that such severe 
measures w 7 ould have had the support of scientific men, and 
more especially in their exclusive application to a disease, 
whether contagious or not, the antecedents of whose history 
show that it often passes from country to country as an ordi- 
nary epizootic affection 
[To he continued .) 
EPIDEMIC CATARRH IN HORSES.— OPERATION OF 
L TRACHEOTOMY. 
By G. W. Bowler, Y.S. 
There is seldom a year passes, but an epidemic prevails 
at some period, although, sometimes it is so slight, that 
horsemen are apt to make light of it. But this is very w rong, 
and it' behoves every man owning horses to have a care for 
them on the slightest indication of catarrh, for if they are 
only taken in time the disease is readily subdued, but if al- 
lowed to run on, it becomes a dangerous foe, and for the 
want of a little forethought and attention, there is danger of 
losing a valuable animal. 
In the year 1855, and 1856, a serious epidemic raged 
