368 TRANSLATIONS PROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
Also to ascertain under what conditions the virus loses its power. 
Also, whether it would he better to expose young cattle to diseased 
ones, or to inoculate. 
Also, to test whether inoculation will cure or prevent, or do both. 
Also, to see whether the catching virus is confined solely to the lungs, 
or is general to other excretory organs and blood. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
Looking over my reports it will be observed that many diseases exist 
here besides pleuro-pneumonia epizootica. During my visits I have 
attempted to explain the difference between these and pleuro-pneumonia 
epizootica, for the benefit of cattle owners. 
I have often been asked—Is the flesh of animals labouring under 
pneumonia epizootica poisonous to the human subject? I say no. But 
yet it cannot be good for human food, especially if the disorder has 
reached its second and third stages. In fact, it must become highly 
dyspeptic. 
I have the honour to be, sir. 
Your most obedient servant, 
John Pottie, Veterinary Surgeon. 
Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals, 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annales cle Medecine Veterinaires, April, 1862. 
ETIOLOGY OF EXUDATIVE PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
By M. Leconturier, Medeciu Veterinaire, &c. 
At the end of the year 1859 the author, in a report sent 
to the Governor of the province of Brabant, raised a question 
relative to pleuro-pneumonia, the solution of which he thinks 
gives origin to a well-founded hypothesis, which has been 
admitted by M. Verheyen, President of the Provincial Agri¬ 
cultural Society and Professor of the Veterinary School at 
Brussels. In giving an account of it in the report published 
in the Annales for 1859? the Commission of the Provincial Agri¬ 
cultural Society has given a very incomplete and confused 
idea of the author’s views. This has determined him to 
reproduce his opinions, as he thinks they are worthy of being 
submitted to the consideration of veterinary practitioners. 
Exudative pleuro-pneumonia has been known in Belgium 
since 1827. The effects of its nosogenic causes and mys¬ 
terious spreading are, however, new. The question is, what 
can have been the cause of the bovine species being so sus- 
