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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1861. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE EXTENSION OE PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN AUSTRALIA. 
In the Melbourne Argus of December 24th, i860, just re¬ 
ceived, we find some interesting particulars relating to the 
progress of pleuro-pneumonia in Australia. The energetic 
means which were had recourse to by the Government, and 
which were lately reported in our journal, appear to have 
failed in extirpating the malady, although its more rapid 
extension was thereby greatly checked. 
From this circumstance it is much to be feared that the 
disease has here taken, as in America, too deep a root, and 
is too widely spread, to be entirely removed even by the 
legislative measures which are about to be adopted, and that 
for many a year the malad} r will continue its destructive 
ravages ; thus blighting the hopes of those enterprising agri¬ 
culturists who have ^sought a new home in a far distant 
clime, with a view to a better employment and a more 
secure return for their skill and capital. 
The great extension of this disease is one of the most 
remarkable facts in connexion with the maladies of cattle of 
the present age, and it now bids fair to establish itself in every 
part of the civilised globe. The annual loss which our own 
country sustains is immense,—its precise amount will per¬ 
haps never be ascertained,—and, unfortunately, such loss is 
likely to continue, despite of anything which, as a means of 
cure of the disease, can be had recourse to. 
If legislative enactments have been neglected by us, as 
preventives, so likewise have sanitary measures, and the 
application of the principles of science. Were the latter 
more generally adopted, the ravages of the malady might be 
arrested in many a herd. This fact is daily forcing itself 
upon our notice with increased power, and it is one to which 
the agriculturists cannot give too great heed. 
