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Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
REPORTED OUTBREAK OE PLEURO - PNEUMONIA AMONG 
THE CATTLE IN THE YICINITY OE MELBOURNE, 
AUSTRALIA. 
{Continued from p, 710 of last Volume .) 
[We are quite sure that no apology is needed from us for 
the introduction of these lengthened extracts from the 
Melbourne Argus, on this important subject. 
We are indebted to Mr. Miscamble, M.R.C.V.S., for the 
publication containing the account of the outbreak of this 
disease.] 
“ Sir,— Assuming that an account of the 'post-mortem appear¬ 
ances of the above destructive disease may prove interesting 
to your numerous cattle-owning readers and others, I beg to 
hand you at foot the notes taken at a 'post-mortem examination 
made by me yesterday, when, at the request of Mr. Brock, 
one of the Committee appointed by certain members of 
the Port Phillip Farmers’ Society assembled at D. Campbell, 
Esq.’s, I, in the presence of the owner, Mr. Boadle, Mr. 
Brock, Mr. Creighton, my friend Mr. Gibton, M.R.C.V.S., 
and others, chose for examination four of the cattle, com¬ 
prising tw'o which seemed worst affected, one which was said 
to have recovered from the disease three months ago, and 
one which had been destroyed the previous evening for Mr. 
Skilling, and left for my further inspection. 
“ I have to state that the result of my examination leaves 
no doubt in my mind that the disease among these cattle is 
the above-named malady; and I am confirmed in my opinion 
from the analogy between the appearances in these cases, 
and in those which I attended some years ago in the North 
of England, on the estate of Mr. LowTher, Westward Park, 
near Wigton, Cumberland. 
(( I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
“ JOHN MISCAMBLE, M.R.C.Y.S. 
“ Melbotjkne, Sept . 16, 1859.” 
