PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
851 
[An examination of the parts sent, which consisted chiefly 
of the vagina, showed that an extensive deposit of scrofulous 
matter had taken place on the outer wall of this canal. Its 
lining membrane was also much thickened, and remarkably 
corrugated. The contiguous lymphatic glands were involved 
in the morbid deposit. Beyond this little was to he observed, 
in consequence of the decomposed condition of the specimen 
when it came to hand.— Eds.] 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
According to the latest intelligence the cattle plague was 
still prevailing in several parts of Galicia, Buckowina, and 
Roumania. In Hungary the disease had not yielded to the 
means employed for its eradication in the district of Pesth, 
nor did it appear likely to do so for some time to come. The 
plague had also broken out in some villages on the Bosphorus 
and assumed alarming proportions. 
It is officially reported that the disease has been stamped 
out both in East and West Prussia; hut down to the 
time of our last information the Netherlands government had 
not relaxed their precautionary measures against its intro¬ 
duction. 
From Asia Minor the intelligence is distressing. Two 
diseases of cattle—one of which is doubtless the plague—are 
said to he raging over an extent of country fully miles in 
length, and destroying the animals by hundreds. Fully a 
fourth part of the cattle had already been swept away by 
these pests. It is reported that every animal affected Avitli 
one of them dies, hut that several survive the attack of the 
other. The latter named malady would appear to be allied 
to diphtheria, as the animals are said to die from suffocation 
produced by fibrinous effusions into the fauces and larynx. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Both in Great Britain and Ireland pleuro-pneumonia ap¬ 
pears to be on the increase, and to have assumed a very 
virulent form. In one week in October no less than 146 
fresh outbreaks w'ere reported by the inspectors to have 
occurred in Great Britain. Much energy is required on the 
part of the local authorities to subdue the disease. 
