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affection breaks out. It is finally urgent to extend to the 
other aforesaid species the measures applicable to the porcine 
species and modify accordingly the decree of July 28. 
One scarcely knows exactly how to comment upon the' 
above experiments. If they show relation to a swine-plague 
they certainly do not conform to the American swine plague, 
which is not necessarily a pneumonia, nor can it be absolutely 
termed an enteritis, if under the latter term we mean a disease 
of an ulcerative or neoplastic type, as both will fail in a very 
great number of cases. Experimental results in several ani¬ 
mals, such as rabbits, guinea pigs and mice, have no essential 
value to me, as it is very seldom that any pulmonary lesions 
follow inoculations with virulent cultures of the swine 
plague organisms in these animals, the real disease, a septi- 
coemia without complications, usually following. I have made 
a few inoculations in puppies, but weaned ones,—but with no 
ill effects whatever. As to sheep, there have been hundreds 
of practical experiences in this country, where large flocks of 
sheep have been yarded with diseased swine without any evil 
result, and as I write, there is a gentleman in my room who, 
purposely, has turned his sheep in among diseased swine 
for several hours each day in order to have them clean up a 
portion of the corn left by the swine, which of necessity must 
have been more or less polluted by the hogs. He says, “no 
evil results ever followed it.” The same is true of cattle, for 
hogs are purposely kept to follow after grass-fed cattle, and 
while every hog may die of the swine-plague, there has never 
been a case of the cattle becoming ill. With the facts staring 
us in the face, and they have all the value of exact experi¬ 
mentation, we must conclude that our French confrere has 
been misled, and while he may have had to do with a pneumo¬ 
enteritis, that it was a disease entirely distinct from the swine 
plague. It may be well also to call attention to the fact that 
while our English friends look upon the swine plague as 
“ pneumo-enteritis,” that also from these we have no reports 
of either cattle or sheep having been attacked, a fact that 
would scarcely have escaped the attention of such men as 
