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epizootics which threaten an invasion of the cattle of the 
whole country. For the usual maladies of the acute type, 
such as glanders, farcy, anthrax, pleuro-pneumonia exuda- 
tive, the slaughtering of animals ought only to be ordered in 
exceptional cases, and at the onset, and not at the decline of 
the disease. 
In cases where the danger of contagion is not so great, it 
may be prevented by isolation, and this means therefore 
should be adopted. 
The killing of animals should always take place in cases of 
chronic glanders, even when they present the usual signs of 
good condition and apparent health. Cases of chronic 
farcy, although less dangerous, should be destroyed if the 
disease is incurable. 
The author afterwards enters into the indemnities the 
owners of the slaughtered animals ought to receive, &c. 
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“MAL DU PANAIS.” 
By the Same. 
On the 4th of August, 1856, during a thick fog and 
heavy dew, existing from 5 to 9 in the morning, some women 
and children, thirty-one in number, went into a field in 
the village of Cortilloodon, province of Namur, to collect a 
plant known by the name of panais des vaches, (cow-parsnip) 
[Heracleum sphondt/liy,m). The atmosphere was so heavy that 
the sun could not penetrate through the fog, and the heat 
was suffocating. In the course of this day and the next, all 
these persons, without exception, were attacked with vesi- 
cation on their arms, hands, and wrists ; and some of them, 
those who were without stockings, had these blisters on their 
legs. They had all, with the exception of one, turned up 
their sleeves to collect the plant. In this one instance the 
blisters were confined to the wrist and the back of the hand. 
A burning sensation, accompanied with heat and swelling, 
was first felt in all the parts that had been in contact with 
the plant. The action was not of the same intensity in all, 
nor did the symptoms present the same aspect in every 
instance. In one case the pustules were close together, and 
almost confluent. In another the left arm — which, by the 
bye, was in all cases the worst, on account of the plant resting 
on it while its collection was being made with the right hand 
