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PLEUR0-PNEUM0NIA IN CATTLE. 
July, when old enough to put to grass, they were first pas¬ 
tured with the three nearest home; then the five remained 
together about four weeks, when they were all removed to the 
pasture, several miles distant, with the six older above named. 
The eleven were here kept together several weeks, when one 
of the two youngest which were taken from the cowhouse, 
and which had been exposed to its contaminating influence, 
was discovered dead in the pasture, and the other was very 
sick. The dead one was immediately buried, and the sick 
one taken home, where it died in two days afterwards. But 
the nine which had not been exposed to the atmosphere of 
the cowhouse have continued well up to this time. I should 
state that one of the youngest of these nine animals was sup¬ 
posed to be sick in December last, after their return from the 
pasture, when the person in charge gave to it a single dose 
of the Yankee remedy, thoroughwort tea, which immediately 
restored it to its wonted health. And notwithstanding they 
were exposed for weeks with the two which died, they are 
now all well. 
I would now again observe, that although there was slight 
diarrhoea in the large cow;, upon the w ? hole she was consti¬ 
pated, requiring aperients even up to the time of her death. 
Remarks .—Many persons in this vicinity have heard of the 
loss of this most valuable stock of cattle, and doubtless they 
are interested to know the cause. 
There are various opinions in relation to it, both among 
veterinarians and others. Although there are some facts 
which would lead many to think that the disease originated 
with the cows imported in May last, still there are many cir¬ 
cumstances equally as strong which will lead to a different 
conclusion. I believe they died of phthisis pulmonalis, a 
disease resembling “ Consumption” in the human subject. 
We have given a brief description of the building in which 
the cattle were housed, and we think it probable that the last 
importation might have contracted the disease of which they 
died on shipboard. Although they came from Holland, in 
many parts of which it is said there are a great number of 
diseased cattle, they might have brought from thence the 
germ of that disease with them, yet one of their number is 
still living and is well. We think, further, that we have dis¬ 
covered another cause of the death of so many valuable 
animals, viz., the building or cowhouse itself, with the prac¬ 
tice of securing the animals with their heads towards each 
other; for thus each healthy animal was forced to inhale the 
breath of the diseased; and it is a Ifact that the healthy 
were the companions of the sick until the latter died and 
were removed. 
