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Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The area over wliicli the cattle plague still prevails in 
Eastern Europe is very extensive, and the malady cannot be 
said to have given way, excepting in comparatively a few 
instances, to the means employed for its extermination. Hun¬ 
gary, Transylvania, and Galicia are still suffering from the 
ravages of the plague. The disease has also broken out in a 
part of Poland, through which the railway runs direct from 
\Yarsaw into Russia. Roumania still suffers from the disease, 
and, according to the most recent information, the plague 
has showui itself in some villages near to Constantinople. 
A malignant cattle disease, hut wdiich is thought not to he 
the plague, has also appeared near the Sulina mouth of the 
Danube. Many animals are dying of the malady, the. re¬ 
coveries being very few. 
THE SIBERIAN CATTLE PLAGUE. 
This disease is reported to be greatly on the increase in 
many of the governmental departments of Russia, both north 
and south of the Gulf of Finland. The district around Helsing¬ 
fors, opposite to Revel, is seriously affected. In consequence of 
the prevalence of the malady in Courland, measures have been 
taken by Prussia to prevent, if possible, its entrance into her 
eastern province. According,however, to the latest information 
the plague was declining in the neighbourhood of Riga. The 
Siberian plague does not limit its disastrous effects to cattle 
and sheep, but attacks horses also, and sometimes even man 
himself. 
SMALLPOX OF SHEEP. 
Our advices from the Continent show that the smallpox 
of sheep had acquired rather serious dimensions in Schles¬ 
wig-Holstein during the last few weeks, and that it is still 
existing in the neighbourhood of Stettin. In connection with 
the export trade from Stettin to Leitli, we find that cattle, as 
well as sheep, are being shipped for the latter-named place. 
This subject seems to us to be one requiring deep considera- 
