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Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Reports from the Continent respecting the progress of 
cattle plague in East Prussia were, up to the last week of 
September, far from re-assuring. At the end of August two 
outbreaks were reported near Dantzic, and the disease was 
suspected to exist in a village in the district of Marienburg. 
It appears that cattle plague was introduced into Prussia 
across the eastern frontier by cattle which were purchased by 
dealers in Poland, and sold generally singly to different per¬ 
sons at Muhlhausen fair, on July 19th. Twelve of these 
animals were sent by railway to Kiistrin, near Frankfort, on 
the Oder, and in this way the disease was communicated to 
cattle in that district. 
Later reports are more satisfactory. We learn that the 
measures which were adopted by the Prussian Government 
have been completely successful in exterminating the plague, 
with comparatively trifling loss of cattle ; the malady still 
prevails in some Russian-Polish provinces, and also in Hun¬ 
gary, Roumania, Galicia, and Bulgaria. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AND MOUTH AND FOOT 
DISEASE. 
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These affections have extended, since our last notice, in Eng¬ 
land and abroad. The latter malady has assumed a malignant 
epizootic character, and in many instances has proved fatal. 
Several calves have died suddenly after sucking cows affected 
with the disease. Breeders should he aware that the milk 
when given warm to young animals is poisonous to them ; if 
used at all it should be boiled, and then allowed to become 
cold. Sheep have been attacked in many places, and in the 
neighbourhood of Southampton it is reported to have affected . 
these animals in a very severe form. 
Cattle on many common pastures have been recently 
attacked. An outbreak has been reported to have occurred 
in Welney Washes, in Norfolk, a common pasture, about 
twenty-one miles long, and on the average one mile wide. 
Thousands of cattle are now grazing upon this land. The 
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