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Translations and Eeviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals, 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Journal cles Veter inair es du Midi , April, I860. 
A WORD ON THE CACHEXIA, OH ROT, IN RUMINANTS. 
Par M. Raynaud, Veterinaire a Gaillac. 
The author asserts that all who have written on the 
cachexia in ruminants are in error as to its nature. He 
founds his opinion on the discoveries made by the naturalists 
of our day, which show that the cachexia cannot be anything 
but a verminous affection. Is vertigo in our domesticated 
ruminants considered now-a-days as a morbid state of which 
the ccenurus in the brain is the effect? It has been clearly 
proved that the coenurus is the cause, and that the gravity of 
the disease is always in proportion to its development. 
The pathologist who would consider the presence of’ oestri 
in the stomach of the horse as the effect of gastritis would 
be laughed at, although their presence is often attended by 
colic. Is the acarus in mange an effect or the cause of the 
disease ? If the coenurus cerebralis, the cysticercus of the 
cellular tissue, the cestri in the stomach, the acarus in 
mange, and many other parasites, by their presence in the 
system cause a morbid state of the animal economy, why 
should the flukes in the cachexia be an exception ? There¬ 
fore, the hydroaemia of the French authors, the asthenia of 
M. Valada, ought to be considered as a morbid effect caused 
by the presence of the flukes in the liver, instead of, as 
hitherto, the cause of it; the intensity of the disease being 
always in direct proportion to their number. 
Naturalists no longer admit of the spontaneous evolution 
of the entozoa, all of which come from without, and find 
their way into the system under certain circumstances, and 
pass through one or more changes. 
The older naturalists discovered how the larvae of the 
cestri got into the digestive tube of the horse ; the modern 
and, above all, our contemporaries have found out how the 
coenurus finds its way into the cranium of ruminants, 
and how several species of the taenia arrive at perfection 
through their migration from one kind of animal to another; 
and they are also in a fair way of finding out how and in 
what manner the fluke penetrates into the liver of ruminants. 
