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CATTLE DISEASE IN CHINA. 
were linited to the animals attacked in Mr. Keele’s sheds, and, 
feeling certain that the disease was not confined to his stock, 
I was surprised that so long a time should have elapsed 
before other cases from outside came under notice. A strict 
watch was kept over the sheds of the native cattle dealers, 
but nothing definite was discovered. 
Mr. Warden, of Messrs. Russell and Co., kept at this time 
three milch cows and a calf, stalled on Messrs. Russell and 
Co.’s premises, but led out daily to pasture in the suburbs. 
Of one of these cows, Mr. Keele told me that she was in the 
habit of coming about his premises, sometimes coming quite 
inside his compound, and that not many days before his 
cattle were attacked he had had her driven out of his pad- 
dock. Since the disease had first appeared he had seen her 
and the other cows belonging to Mr. Warden feeding on the 
Old Race Course on part of the pasture where his cows had 
been. On the 3rd of April I learned that this cow was ill; 
she died on the 8th with, report said, symptoms similar to 
those exhibited by Mr. Keele’s cows. On the l6th the calf 
died, and along with Dr. Little I witnessed a hurried exa¬ 
mination of the carcase. We were told by Mr. Warden’s 
coachman that the animal had been ill for three days; had 
been running at the eyes and nose, and had had diarrhoea; 
that the ears had been cold and drooping. The mucous 
membrane of the nostrils, larynx and trachea was discoloured 
and congested, the bowels appeared externally as if in the 
first stage of peritonitis, but were naturally glossy and 
free from deposit of lymph. The lungs and pleurae were 
healthy. 
On the 22nd of April the mother of the calf was taken ill, 
and 1 visited her in her stall. She had been sick and refusing 
food for three days. She was very listless and stupid look¬ 
ing. The secretion of milk had almost ceased. The nostrils 
were discharging, although not profusely. There was a little 
dysenteric purging. Her ears were cold and drooped. Her 
pulse was quickened. She was removed at my request to a 
stall in Hongkew and closely watched. She died on the 
25th, her life apparently prolonged by the use of porter, 
several bottles of which were daily poured down her throat. 
The post-mortem examination was made 7| hours after death, 
in presence of Drs. Johnston and Macgowan. The morbid 
appearances were peculiarly well marked in this case. Mr. 
Warden’s third cow was removed to other quarters, and 
escaped the contagion. Evidence now began to accumulate 
on all sides, proving that the disease was not confined to 
