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ON THE EPIDEMIC CATAURII. 
present examples of Franco, and some other countries on the 
continent of Europe. 
He then takes a survey of the former state of the art in Greece 
and Rome, and its present one in most of the continental states ; 
and he thus concludes:—To this country, \vhose breeds of cattle 
are hardly equalled in any part of Europe, the numbers of which 
render them objects of great concern, and which is still increased 
by the high price they bear—to this country it still belongs to 
follow the same example, and, in advancing the art to an height 
hitherto unattained, to make it some amends for the neglect we 
have hitherto shewn it, and to extricate it effectually from the 
ignorant and barbarous hands that till now have ventured to 
exercise it. 
oiAinnoE. 
ON THE EPIDEMIC CATARRHAL FEVER OF THE 
LAST WINTER. 
Ml', Hayes, V.S., Rochdale. 
From October 1832 to March 1833, there have been nu¬ 
merous cases, in this district, of catarrhal fever, joined with 
inflammation of lungs, and liver, and trachea, and oesophagus, 
and larynx, and pharynx, and the mucous lining membrane of 
the bowels; frequently with all the symptoms of malignant ca¬ 
tarrh, and even these in an aggravated form. In some cases 
there was excessive diarrhoea: the faeces were black, liquid, 
mucous, and bloody, exceedingly fetid, and accompanied by 
such extreme debility, that the animal could not move without 
falling: there was quick pulse, injected nose, mouth and gums 
as red and dry as possible, and resembling a piece of lean raw 
beef. In some there was extensive anasarca; in others, phleg¬ 
monous tumours in different parts of the body; in others, again, 
there were spasmodic jerkings, and lameness in the legs, and 
shoulders, and hips. On the fourth day they generally began 
to bleed at the nose, a very dark-coloured thin blood, which con¬ 
tinued for four or five days, or until the bowels became set; in 
some, for about the first two days, the bow^els were constipated ; 
the pellets of dung came enveloped in a thin tissue of the mucous 
lining of the bowels; this also came in great quantities, w'hether 
the faeces w^ere hard, or pultaceous. There was total loss of 
appetite for five or six days; the temperature of the extremities 
w'as irregular, sometimes hot and sometimes cold: one day the 
near fore leg and the off hind leg would be quite cold, and the 
others warm, and next day it w'ould be just the contrary. 
