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THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1859. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri'non audeat. — Cicero. 
ALLEGED OUTBREAK OP PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN 
AUSTRALIA. 
Our present number will be found to contain the unwel¬ 
come intelligence of the appearance in Australia of that fatal 
disease to cattle—pleuro-pneumonia—(see p. 702, et seq). 
Hitherto this thriving colony has been considered as being 
secure against the outbreak of this scourge, seeing that its 
native cattle were unaffected, and that it was placed at so 
great a distance from those parts of the world where the 
malady prevailed. Even the rapid communication which 
has been effected between it and the mother country, was 
thought to be incapable of mischief, in this particular, by the 
transmission of animals, as they would nevertheless be so long 
on the passage that their freedom from disease would be fully 
tested. Besides, the few cattle shipped from here could only 
consist of first-class animals, selected with the greatest care 
from our purest breeds, for none other could possibly prove 
remunerative to the importers. There appears to be still a 
great necessity to thoroughly investigate the laws which govern 
the spread of pleuro-pneumonia. Of its dire contagion, com¬ 
paratively few doubters now exist among scientific practi¬ 
tioners ; but of the commencement or ending of the power of 
its transmission, no one seems to be fully acquainted with. 
Throughout continental Europe, the sanitary laws applicable 
to this disease are remarkable for their stringency; and in 
Bavaria, the animals which survive the attack are branded on 
their horns, to prevent their being readily disposed of, it being 
thought that, from the partial disorganization of their lungs, 
which still exists, they are capable for many succeeding 
months of disseminating the materies morbi. That such may 
