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PLEURO PNEUMONIA IN THE UNITE!) STATES. 
meadows, and the borders of watercourses and shallow 
rivers are frequently infested with this disease, while the 
mountain ranges are exempt. Among the organic causes, 
the first is the constitution of the herbivorous animals, and 
secondly the debility caused by the scarcity of fodder, or 
the little nutrition contained in it. 
That this disease is hereditary cannot be refuted, and 
therefore the author abstains from adducing the many facts 
in support of it. 
Parliamentary Intelligence. 
TUESDAY, July 3, 1860. 
Diseased horses at Aldershot. — General Peel asked 
the Secretary of State for War if it was true that glanders 
prevailed to a considerable extent amongst the horses in the 
camp at Aldershot; and, if so, if he could state what steps 
had been taken to prevent the spread of it. 
Mr. Sidney Herbert said he had found, upon inquiry, that 
it was suspected that some of the horses at Aldershot had 
glanders, and orders had in consequence been given to 
separate them from the other horses. Subsequently, the 
matter had been inquired into by a military board, and they 
reported that no horses were affected with glanders, but the 
few that were suspected were removed, the stable was 
subjected to fumigation, and the roof taken off before beino- 
again used. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONLA IN THE UNITED STATES. 
THis.disease is spreading rapidly in the State of Massa¬ 
chusetts. A committee of the two houses of the Legislature, 
which was occupied for eight days in receiving evidence, 
reported, on the 7th ult., “that from the evidence before the 
committee, it is apparent the disease is contagious, and so 
insidious in its attacks, so difficult of discovery in its early 
stages, and so fatal in its termination, as to warrant stringent 
measures to arrest its progress, and to protect the great 
interest exposed to its ravages.” 
Two draft bills were also submitted at the same time, with 
the view of preventing the spread of the disease, along with 
