EDITORIAL. 
147 
We begin, to-day, the translation of an excellent and timely 
article on the subject by the late A. Zundel, which, we believe, 
will be interesting and instructive reading to all who will give it 
their attention. 
The following extract from the National Live Stock Joitrncd 
contains a succinct statement of the facts of the case as thus far 
developed: 
“ Nine Norman stallions from Wapello, De Witt County, are in a hospital at 
Bloomington, suffering from a curious disease, which is said to have been brought 
to this country by imported stallions in 1885. Forty mares, it is said, have died 
from it already, and twenty more are still suffering from it. Assistant State 
Veterinarian Williams, of Bloomington, has spent some time in investigating the 
disease, and finds there is a very grave cause for alarm, unless the greatest care is 
taken in the matter of quarantine. He finds that two imported stallions have 
died from the disease, that ten are very sick, and some of them will die; also 
that thirty-five mares have died, and more are affected. This disease is com¬ 
municated in breeding, It is believed that all the stallions affected are quaran¬ 
tined, and most of the mares. However, it is almost impossible to ascertain this. 
Many mares bred by affected horses have been shipped away, and bred to other 
horses, perhaps. Dr. Williams thinks that the most vigilant attention of the 
Live-Stock Commission and the heartiest co-operation of the people are demanded 
at once. The imported-horse interests of Illinois are very great, and unless the 
malady is promptly obliterated the most serious results may follow.” 
Pleuro-Pneumonia. —The presence of dourine and the labor 
which we believe it is likely to impose upon the veterinarians of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry, will, of course, not exempt them 
from the serious task of combatting other and kindred evils in 
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which they are now engaged. The prosecution of their warfare 
with contagious pleuro-pneumonia must necessarily occupy so 
much of their time and attention, considering the thoroughness 
with which their work is carried on, that it must needs be that 
they have but scant time left to devote to other objects. Ac¬ 
cording to recent reports, notwithstanding this, however, the 
work is being well attended to, though not without some diffi¬ 
culty, in Chicago, where Professor Law continues to be earnestly 
engaged, and to be laboring as assiduously as he formerly did 
while in New York, in the days of General Patrick’s commission. 
In Virginia, in Maryland, in New York, in New Jersey, and, we 
believe, also in Pennsylvania, the work is now tolerably well or¬ 
ganized, and the destruction of diseased and infected animals, 
