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assertions, and those of Prof. Williams and a few others, that 
it was not the genuine dreaded lung-plague which they had 
found. Recently, a few cases of this American broncho¬ 
pneumonia reached France in an export cargo, and at first 
the French veterinary officials suspected lung-plague, but 
upon a more careful inspection of the affected parts were led 
to believe that it was some other form of pneumonia, as yet 
new to the veterinary profession of France, and experiments 
upon other animals fully demonstrated the correctness of their 
views, so that so high an authority as Prof. Nocard, of Alfort, 
states positively that it is not lung-plague, and that in his 
opinion it is of no moment from a veterinary sanitary-police 
standpoint. 
Clinical and post-mortem observations of this disease have 
been sufficiently abundant in this country that the matter has 
been for some time quite clearly settled, and a clear differ¬ 
entiation made between these two pneumonias here, and it 
has been sufficiently discussed in our veterinary journals, that 
had British veterinarians seen fit to read and believe careful 
scientific contributions, the long dispute might have been 
promptly adjusted; but British veterinarians do not read 
American veterinary journals, and British veterinary jour¬ 
nals quote but scantily from our current literature. Fortun¬ 
ately, owing to early habits, before our own journals were 
well established, American veterinarians are liberal readers of 
British veterinary literature, but our journals are entirely too 
penurious in their quotations from these. A more liberal and 
cordial spirit on the part of both would doubtless prove of 
mutual benefit. 
Again we have a suggestion of this incredulity in the same 
number of the Veterinary Journal, on p. 272, under the caption 
of “ A Supposed New Disease Among Cattle in the United 
States of America,” in which it is cited that some learned 
British associations are greatly alarmed over threatened in-. 
vasion of contagious foot and mouth disease through the 
importation of American cattle ; and all this alarm in the face 
of positive assertions that we have no such disease in this 
country. To be sure, we have a few hot-headed, erratic men, 
