ON GANGRENOUS PI:RIPNEUM0NY IN CATTLE, 
AND ITS MODE OF TREATMENT. 
By M, H. Mathiett, M.V. hi Chief of the Department des 
Vosges, 
[A friend has lent us for a day or two a work which we had long 
ago ordered, the treatise by Professor Delafond on “ The Sani- 
tory Police/’ in France, so far as it regards the domestic quad¬ 
ruped. In our next number we trust that we shall be enabled 
to give an analysis, of a portion, at least, of this most valuable 
work*. Since the publication of this work. Professor Dela¬ 
fond has received various essavs on the contagious diseases of 
quadrupeds. With the consent of the authors, and with 
great liberality on his part, he will publish many of them in 
the “ Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire Pratique.” He is be¬ 
ginning with the diseases of the lungs in cattle, a subject of 
peculiar importance to the English veterinarian at the pre¬ 
sent moment. We shall, as our limits will admit, translate 
the substance of these essays. It will be seen that the dis¬ 
ease treated on by M. Mathieu resembles, or is identical wdth 
that acute inflammation of the lungs in cattle which is occa¬ 
sionally epidemic among us, and which destroys so many 
valuable animals. Our old writer’s used to term it gangrenous 
inflammation, from the rapidity with which it ran its course, 
and the extreme congestion of the lungs, giving to them an 
appearance of rottenness. —Y.] 
Gangrenous peripneiimony in cattle, and which I should 
rather call pneumo-sarcie, because the lungs, instead of being 
gangrenous, are converted into a kind of black substance, compact 
and heavy, is a very serious and fearful malady. It is most fre¬ 
quent and destructive in the mountainous parts of the country. 
It is there, to a certain degree, enzootic ^ if not permanent; and it 
js only by means of its fearful contagious property that it ap¬ 
pears among the cattle of the plains. In its native locality it 
is seldom that it is confined to one beast alone in the stable in 
* There is a diiTiculty in procuring French scientific works in London, 
which we trust does not exist in Paris with regard to similar productions 
l)v Enj^lish authors. We could give many illustrations of this. The “ Me¬ 
moirs de la Society Veterinaire du Calvados’’—it was eighteen months after 
tlieir publication before we could get them. It would seem that if a book 
is not published by the firm immediately connected with the agent in Lon¬ 
don, it is almost impossible to obtain it through his means. This appears to 
us slrangcly impolitic as well as illiberal, and should speedily cease in both 
countries.—V. 
