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Veterinary Surgeon and Inspector for the district of Marl¬ 
borough, of course the law would not have been infringed. 
As this was the first case that had occurred in the county, 
and as the defendant did not appear wilfully to have broken 
the law, the magistrates inflicted a fine of IO 5 only, and 10^. 
costs. 
Mr. Beverstock, of Chilton Foliatt, farmer, was also sum¬ 
moned for a like offence committed on the 6th of November. 
The defendant was fined Is. only and costs. 
Poisoned Milk. — The ^ Annales di’liygihie 'Publiqiie^ 
relates that several officers of English vessels off Malta exhi¬ 
bited symptoms of poisoning after partaking of the milk of 
goats which had been fed upon a plant called by the inha¬ 
bitants ‘ TenJmta ,’—Euphoebia helioscopia.— Lancet. 
The Cattle Plague, or Rinderpest. —We learn that 
the cattle plague has again been making great ravages in 
various parts of the Austrian dominions. Not to mention 
Moravia, Galicia, and Bohemia, where it has caused very 
great losses, it is reported that, in 198 communes in Hun¬ 
gary alone, out of 104,000 head of cattle, nearly 18,000 
animals have died. In the north-west the disease is still 
raging, but in the other districts it is considerably abated. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia among the Continental Cat¬ 
tle. —A meeting of graziers and veterinary surgeons was held 
lately at Leipsic to take into consideration the best mode of 
preventing the spread of the lung disease among horned 
cattle. Measures, such as the confinement of the diseased 
animals, the prohibition of all sales, &c., found zealous advo¬ 
cates; but the majority admitted that all coercion, however 
ingeniously arranged, becomes difficult in practice, and that 
any restrictions to trade in cattle would be ruinous to the 
feeder as well as to the breeder. That principle having been 
admitted, the conferenee turned upon the other measures of 
preciiution, and some curious facts with respect to inocula¬ 
tion were listened to with great attention. This practice, 
which was first tried some ten years back, was strongly 
opposed, both in Germany and France, but it has been 
adopted when the malady was prevalent. 
Professor Haubner, a Saxon veterinary surgeon, calculates 
that the disease called jileuro-pneumonia carries off from 25 
to 50 per cent, of the animals affected by it, whereas in the 
districts where inoculation has been practised the loss does 
not exceed 10 per cent., and the mortality is sometimes 
reduced to 2 per cent. This calculation has been confirmed 
