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INFECTIOUS, CONTAGIOUS AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 
FNEUMONIA. niSTORY. ITS MALIGNANT CONTAGIOUSNESS. DEFINITION.— m 
DOW TUE INFECTION ENTERS THE SYSTEM. HOW LONG IS A DISEASED AN* 
IMAL INFECTIOUS. HOW TO KNOW IT. WHAT TO DO. TEXAS FEVEE., 
HOW TO KNOW IT. BLOODY MURRAIN. ITS MALIGNANT CHARACTER,. 
PREVENTIVES. WHAT TO DO. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASB. CON, 
TAGIOUS PLEURA. LICE ON CATTLE. FOULS IN CATTLE. HORN-AIL, OB HOLLOW 
HORN. CHOKING. DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, ETC. COW POX. 
Infectious, Contagious and Epidemic Diseases. 
Among the most terrible of the diseases ever imported into the United 
States is pleuro pneumonia contagiosa known scientifically by a large 
number of names, but now generally designated as Bovine Pneumonia 
Plague, and the Lung Plague in cattle ; Texas Fever, known also as 
Spanish Fever and Texas Cattle Disease, and scientifically as Splenie 
Fever; Bloody Murrain, also known as “Black Quarter” (Quatran) and 
“Quarter Ail,” is known among veterinarians by its French name 
Charbon, and also as Contagious Anthrax. Thus these will be all that 
it will be necessary to treat at considerable length as among contagion* 
diseases. 
Contagious Pleuro-pneumonia. 
This disease which has lately excited so much attention in the United 
States from its violent outbreak in the Atlantic States, and the well 
grounded fear that for the lack of national legislation it might overrun 
the whole country, is the most malignant with which the farmers of the 
country have had to deal, Once fairly established in the West there 
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