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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Leaving* Zabrzez, we went on to Kamienica, five miles 
distant, and the head-quarters of the Austrian commission, 
which had been specially sent to administer the sanitary laws 
applicable to the rinderpest. The commission was consti- 
tuted of Dr. Anton Karger and M. Johann Rucki, “ Imperial 
Royal Commissioners of sanitary police for Epizootics,” and 
from them, during our entire stay, we not only experienced 
all the assistance in their power in furtherance of our inquiry, 
bat likewise the greatest kindness and friendship. We were 
thus left free to pass, as often as occasion required, between 
Kamienica and Zabrzez, and so to act in our investigations, 
both within and without the cordon , as scarcely could be an- 
ticipated, when the austerity of military discipline in these 
cases is considered, and which compensated in a great 
measure for our oat-straw 7 beds and sour rye-bread repasts. 
In Kamienica we found two quarantine stations, in one of 
which seven animals were placed, and in the other nine. 
Two days prior to our arrival a case had occurred in the first 
station, and more were daily looked for. The animal in 
question, a cow, was observed by her owner, late in the 
evening of Thursday, April 30th, to be out of health. She 
was reported early on the following morning, and imme- 
diately seen by the Commissioners, who at once recognised 
the pest. She lived till 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 2nd, only 
surviving the attack about forty-two hours. After the body 
had been examined — and which has to be done in every 
instance — it was buried. The skin, however, was allowed to 
be removed for the owner’s use, subsequent to its being dis- 
infected and prepared under the inspection of the proper 
officers. 
At our first visit to these quarantine stations, in company 
with the Commissioners and Professor Nicklas, and which 
was late in the afterpart of Monday, May 4th, no indications 
of disease could be detected in any of the animals — a fact 
not without some value, as, on our second visit, at 6 a.m. 
of the following day, an aged cow, one of the seven, exhibited 
some of the premonitory symptoms of the pest. This case 
will hereafter be referred to. 
According to arrangement, we next proceeded to exhume 
the animal which had died on Saturday, that we might note 
for ourselves the several lesions which had been produced by 
the disease. We found that all the viscera of the chest had 
been removed, and were lying by the side of the body, and 
on bringing both these and the carcase to the surface, we 
were forcibly struck by the circumstance that so little decom- 
position had taken place, that no unpleasant smell attended 
