A NEW PASTEURELLOSE. 
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15 or 20 minutes, we watching him making his efforts to get 
up, falling back here and there to the right and to the left or 
on his belly, dragging the stump of his cord on the ground, in 
the urine, or even on the faecal matters. It was only after the 
mother had well licked her little one, well covered with salt, 
that the cord was ligated. I am not sure that the umbilicus was 
cleaned. 
I repeat it, this I saw in one of the best-kept farms that we 
have visited; the farmer being certainly a very intelligent man. 
It would be astonishing if, in such conditions, the calf could 
escape infection. 
The squeezing and rubbings to which the cord may be ex¬ 
posed while the foetus passes through the always soiled vagina 
may contribute in a certain measure to umbilical infection. 
The conditions of the infection being known—and I firmly 
believe that they are such as I have described—it is possible to 
foresee the rules of an efficacious prophylaxy. 
They could be presented in a notice distributed to farmers 
in the regions where the disease exists : 
“ White scour is ordinarily the result of an umbilical infec¬ 
tion which takes place at the time of delivery, by the way of 
the wound made by the rupture of the cord. 
“ Farmers can protect their stock by the following : 
“ 1. Cows ready to calve shall be provided with dry and 
clean bedding until after the birth of the calf. 
u 2. As soon as labor will set in, the vulva, anus and peri¬ 
neum shall be cleaned with tepid solution of lysol in rain 
water ; 20 grammes of lysol for each litre of water. The vagina 
should be also cleaned by injecting with a large syringe a great 
quantity of the same tepid solution. 
“ 3. As much as possible the calf shall be received on a clean 
cloth or at least upon a thick fresh bedding not soiled by urine 
or faeces. 
u 4. The cord shall be tied immediately after birth with a 
ligature kept in a lysol solution, and the cord amputated below 
the ligature. 
