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CATTLE DISEASE IN CHINA. 
Description of animal. 
Date of 
sickening. 
Date of death. 
Remarks. 
1. 
French heifer ex Hoogly * 
March 13th 
March 18tli 
2. 
„ ,, Provence 
55 
19th 
5 5 
24th 
3. 
„ „ Alphee . 
55 
20th 
55 
26th 
4. 
„ „ Donnai . 
55 
23rd 
55 
26th 
5. 
English cow. 
55 
23rd 
55 
28th 
6. 
Australian cow. 
55 
23rd 
55 
28th 
7. 
Calf . 
55 
23rd 
55 
27th 
3 months old. Killed. 
8. 
J) . 
55 
23rd 
55 
24th 
6 or 7 weeks old. 
Killed. 
9. 
Shanghai heifer . 
55 
24th 
55 
27th 
10. 
n » .. 
55 
24th 
55 
26th 
11. 
„ bull . 
55 
24th 
55 
26th 
12. 
Buffalo. 
55 
24th 
55 
27th 
13. 
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55 
24th 
55 
27th 
14. 
Australian cow. 
55 
24th 
55 
28th 
15. 
French heifer ex Hoogly... 
55 
24th 
55 
27th 
Killed. 
16. 
Calf . 
55 
24th 
55 
24th 
1 month old. Killed. 
17. Shanghai heifer calf . 
55 
24th 
55 
26th 
6 or 7 months old. 
18. 
French heifer ex Meikong 
55 
26th 
55 
27th 
Killed. 
19. 
Australian cow. 
55 
26th 
55 
28th 
20. 
English hull . 
55 
26th 
Recovered. 
21. 
French heifer ex Alphee 
55 
28th 
April 
1st 
22. 
Australian cow. 
55 
28th 
55 
3rd 
23. Shanghai cow. 
55 
28th 
55 
4th 
24. 
Australian cow. 
55 
29th 
55 
4th 
25. 
Shanghai cow. 
55 
31st 
55 
2nd 
26. 
55 55 . 
55 
31st 
55 
4tli 
On the 1st of April Mr. Keele removed the 13 animals 
which the disease had spared, to sheds situated at a distance 
from their old quarters, and by this precaution fortunately 
succeeded in preserving a remnant of his stock. Of all the 
26 animals attacked, but one, an old English bull, recovered; 
the 5 killed were all evidently hopelessly sick. 
Among the sick cattle visited on the morning of the 26th 
March the following symptoms specially attracted my atten¬ 
tion. Pyrexia, indicated by a quickened pulse, and by the 
eagerness with which those animals in what appeared to be 
the earlier stages of the disease sought to cool their bodies in 
a pond which occupied the centre of the paddock; cessation 
of rumination, not confined to those apparently most seriously 
affected; depression of vital energy, shown by low carriage 
of the head, drooping of the ears, coldness of the extremities, 
and the indifference with which the greater number regarded 
the approach of strangers; a profuse watery quasi-dysenteric 
discharge from the bowels in what appeared to be an advanced 
* These are the names of the vessels from which Mr. Keele obtained the 
animals in Shanghai. It will be seen that they all belong to the French 
mail service, hence the common but erroneous impression that the disease 
was introduced from France. 
