EDITORIAL. • 5^ 
>nsider the recent discussions and discoveries of its contagious 
iwers, and recall the similarity existing between this and the 
me disease in man, the human sanitarian also will once again 
} obliged to acknowledge the importance of the link which 
lites the two medicines. More dangerous in itself probably, 
an contagious pleuro-pneumonia, it may also be found more 
fficult to suppress, and having so interesting a relation to the 
:neial health of the people, it demands more active and effective 
^islative action to keep it under control. 
Hog Cholera. If other diseases of our domestic animals 
e claiming the consideration of sanitarians and legislators for 
onomic reasons on account of the losses they may inflict on the 
tional wealth, as well as their disastrous effects upon the gen¬ 
ii health of the nation, what must be said of hog cholera, a 
,ea se which, it is acknowledged, costs the country hundreds of 
Uions of dollars yearly? Our agricultural papers are full of 
ascriptions and advice on the subject, including both the pro- 
ylaxis and the cure, but the value of the suggestions so variously 
mn, especially those of the preventive class, becomes but little 
parent, or quite falls to the ground when it is considered that 
has been thoroughly and without doubt , demonstrated that 
>culation is the only reliable measure of prevention. It is 
ie that before inoculation can be introduced into this country, 
must have a definite and satisfactory answer to an important 
sstion furnished, from one source or another, and must settle 
fl uei T> “what is hog cholera”—is it the same disease here 
fth that which prevails in Europe? Veterinary authorities 
I this side of the .Atlantic seem to disagree on this serious point. 
Jthe rouget of France, the schweine-senche of Germany, and the 
3umo-enteritis of England, and the cholera of America one 
ease ? If we are to accept what has been written by competent 
hois in all these various countries, there does not seem to be room 
a doubt. The symptoms and the lesions of which we read de- 
ptions by French, German, English and American authors, are 
lost literally the same. The reports of those who have seen it in 
se various countries contain no essential differences in their ac- 
nts of the different nationalities and of different breeds. Hot- 
