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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN AUSTRALIA. 
tical agriculturist. The governors will, however, conclude 
this Report by congratulating the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society upon the assurances which they have 
received from eminent veterinary surgeons in the country, 
and from other persons well qualified to form an opinion, 
that the ignorant and often highly-mischievous use of medi¬ 
cine, and the unskilful and often cruel misuse of surgery 
among domesticated animals generally, have greatly receded 
before the extension of truly scientific knowledge which 
the two institutions continue, by their co-operation, to 
diffuse. C. N. Newdegate, 
Chairman. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
AUSTRALIAN REPORT ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
After holding various consultations and comparing notes, 
the Pleuro-Pneumonia Commissioners for Victoria, with the 
sanction of the former honorary commissioners, assisted by 
Mr. Meston, a gentleman of considerable experience from 
New South Wales, and others, have agreed to recommend 
for publication the following observations on this insidious 
malady, for the better information of stock-owners par¬ 
ticularly, and the inhabitants of the Australias generally, 
unto most of whom, pleuro-pneumonia seems a mysterious 
visitation. 
To every colonist this subject ought to be considered as 
involving interests of deep importance, affecting the future 
supply and price of meat, and the common prosperity of all 
the Australian colonies. 
Robert Meston. 
John Miscamble, M.R.C.V.S. 
Anthony A. Smith, M.R.C.V.S. 
John P. Vincent, M.R.C.V.S. 
Alex. Brock, J.P., Hon Com. 
William Lyall, late Hon. Com. 
Melbourne ; Oct . 12 th , 1861. 
The origins of new diseases are often more inscrutable than 
their natures. 
As to this disease, Professor Simonds says it is a mis¬ 
nomer, and the erroneous designation has done not a little to 
mystify the subject. The name of a disease should always cor¬ 
respond with its nature. Pleuro-pneumonia signifies not only 
inflammation of the pleurae, but substance of the lungs also. 
