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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Cases 5, 6, 7, 8. 
The animals which formed the subjects of these cases were the 
companions of Case 4. Three of them exhibited the ordinary symptoms 
which are seen at the commencement of the pest on the morning of May 
10th, and the other was taken ill during the next day. The character 
and progress of the symptoms in the first three were the same as 
are usually observed, and therefore they do not call for any particular 
remarks. The opportunity was afforded us of watching these animals 
during the whole of May 10th, the Commissioners allowing them to be 
kept for that purpose ; but on the following day, as soon as the only re¬ 
maining animal (Case 8) was attacked, they were all slaughtered. The 
malady was quickly running its course at this time, and doubtless 
would have terminated fatally in all the animals within a day or 
two; indeed, in one of them the symptoms were now so much aggra¬ 
vated, as to convince us that a few hours would suffice for the animal— 
a cow—to succumb to the pest. 
The post-mortem examination, which we made in each of these cases, 
6hoAved that in all essential particulars the morbid changes agreed with 
those we have already given in detail. Slight differences were observed 
both in the extent and location of the principal lesions, but these it is 
unnecessary to describe. Indeed a careful perusal of the cases which 
we have selected for embodiment in this report will, we hope, sufficiently 
explain the morbid changes, even to the medical as to the non-medical 
reader. 
(To be continued .) 
The Chinese believe there is a word expressive of all ex¬ 
cellence, so exquisite that no one can pronounce it, although 
it can be written and perceived by the eyes; but they do not 
give it. 
“ Grains of truth are like grains of gold in the rivers 
of Australia—they must be shaken by the hands of patience 
and washed in the streams of honesty, or the fine gold will 
be mingled with impurities.” 
