REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
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our operations, although the animal had been dead about 
sixty-five hours. The flesh also was firm, and of a normal 
colour ; the blood, however, was still fluid in the vessels, and 
of a darker hue than natural. It will not be necessary to give 
a detailed account of the morbid appearances which were met 
with in the viscera, and more especially as, in the course of 
this report, we shall have to describe these in extenso as they 
were observed in several other cases ; suffice it therefore to 
say, that although they left no doubt of the animal having 
died from the pest, they opened up new ideas in our 
minds as to the true pathology of the disease. 
Before proceeding to a description of the nature and 
symptoms of the malady, or the relation of individual cases of 
it, we propose to give in the next place the 
History of the Appearance of the Rinderpest in 
Zabrzez and Kamienica. 
Until the present occasion, the villages of Zabrzez and 
Kamienica, as well as all the surrounding district, have been 
perfectly free from the disease since 1846. 
The outbreak took place in the month of March, 
and was due to the introduction of ten steppe oxen which had 
been purchased at a cattle fair held at Jaczmirz, in the Lem- 
berg division of Galicia. These oxen came with large droves 
from Bessarabia, and from three to four thousand head were 
brought together at the fair. Jaczmirz is about twenty 
German miles from Zabrzez, and three full days were occu- 
pied in driving the animals to the latter-named place. 
They were bought by M. Berl Krumholz, farmer and dis- 
tiller, and arrived at the farm on the 15th of the same month, 
and, after remaining a few hours, were sent on to Kamienica, 
where the distillery is situated. They were here put with 
fourteen fat oxen, but, in consequence of these animals being 
sold for slaughtering two days afterwards, the steppe cattle 
were returned to Zabrzez on the 18th. Here they were placed 
in a stable by themselves, and stood there until the 20th, when 
four of them were a second time sent to Kamienica, with ten 
head of young stock, and on their arrival were placed with 
twenty-one others. 
On the following day, the 21st, the six steppe oxen left 
at Zabrzez w r ere observed to be trembling, which being 
supposed to depend on exposure to cold, they w r ere put 
into a shed for warmth, in which w r ere eighteen other animals, 
consisting of some young bulls, cow^s, and two calves. On the 
22nd, the four steppe oxen at Kamienica were likewise noticed 
to be unwell and trembling, and, the true nature of their 
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