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It is also, we believe, very well known, that a wound 
Equally dangerous is occasionally the result of con- 
tact, not of a human body, but of an animal slaught- 
ered by the butcher, and exposed in the shambles, 
^hen, in this country, an accident happens from this 
latter cause, it is usually numbered among those ano- 
ttialoiis occurrences of which no explanation is to be 
expected. Our indefatigable agriculturist, however, 
Itas thrown some light on the point, by informing us 
that the poisonous property resides in the flesh of 
cattle which have died of a certain disease, of which 
he gives the symptoms, and supplies the history. 
“ In some districts of Friesland, for it does not 
pervade the whole, and these usually low and damp 
Situations, the disease in question annually occurs 
epidemically, and under the name of The poison — ■ 
( ^fenyn), proves fatal to many cattle. It has also 
heen observed in Livonia, Finland, and in some parts 
cf Russia.” According to our author, Van Phelsum 
the only writer who had previously taken notice 
it. It is a disease, consequently, which previously 
had been little known, and the cause of which was 
^cty obscure. The first symptoms are loss of appe- 
tite and diminution of the milk in milch cows ; then 
the rumination nearly ceases, and sometimes large 
tumours appear under the skin, which are not, liow- 
critical, and sometimes disappear. Thisisfol- 
lowed by a violent but low fever, under which the 
animal expires. The whole family of black cattle 
