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Pathological Contributions. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Since the publication of our last number we have received 
several communications from different parts of the country re¬ 
lative to the spread of pleuro-pneurponia. This disease appears 
not only to be rapidly[widening’the area of its existence, but to 
be assuming a far more virulent type than of late. It has 
also very recently shown itself in Scotland. Many of the 
outbreaks are clearly traceable to the introduction of fresh 
stock unto the premises, and others of them would seem to 
depend on long incubation of the materies morhi. 
ECZEMA EPIZOOTICA (MOUTH-AND-FOOT 
DISEASE). 
This malignant and contagious malady is at the present 
time prevailing in many parts of the Continent. We find 
that during the past month numerous cargoes of cattle have 
arrived here which the Customs inspectors have had to detain 
in consequence of several of the animals being found to be 
affected with the disease. The rule which is observed appears 
to be that of slaughtering the infected animals at the place of 
landing, and allowing the others to go to the consignees. So 
long as cattle are not permitted to go from the Metro¬ 
politan Market into the country, the plan may be tolerably 
effective against the diffusion of the disease, but once raise the 
cordon, and nothing can save our home-bred stock from this 
and other contagious maladies brought in from the Con¬ 
tinent. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The information which has reached us relative to the 
cattle plague is to the effect that the malady has greatly 
increased during the past month both in Hungary and Poland. 
It appears to have yielded, for the time, to the means em¬ 
ployed in Lower Austria for its suppression; but no well- 
