CATTLE DISEASE IN dliNA. 
absent. It is probable that, in every different epidemic, 
some specially distinguishing feature will be found among the 
symptoms or post-mortem appearances, and climate will of 
course modify these different manifestations. A priori, one 
would expect that, in a disease which affects all the mucous 
surfaces of the body, the respiratory passages would suffer 
most severely in England, and the intestinal canal in 
Shanghai, and, as a consequence, that discharge from the 
nostrils should be a marked feature in the first case and 
diarrhoea or dysentery in the second. The special lesions of 
the mucous lining of the nostrils of which this discharge is 
symptomatic, have been found in a more or less marked 
degree in all the completed post-mortem examinations at which 
I have assisted. I have not observed redness between the 
toes, w 7 ith scaling of the epithelium. 
“ All the post-mortem appearances which are recognised 
by the best authorities as specially characteristic of Steppe 
murrain have been observed among the cattle at present 
dying in Shanghai, and I have on a recent occasion been 
able to demonstrate the greater number of these to the mem¬ 
bers of the Council. 
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“ Shanghai, July 1st , 1872. 5 ' 
[As these morbid changes are fully discussed in the general 
summary, I have thought it unnecessary to reprint the con¬ 
cluding paragraphs of the memorandum.] 
General Summary. —Not the least marked feature of 
this particular epidemic has been the high death-rate. With 
the single exception of an old Ayrshire bull, marked No. 20 
in the table on page 67, I have not seen a single animal 
recover; those of Mr. Keelers stock which were slaughtered 
were all, as already stated, hopelessly sick. All plans of 
treatment failed signally, but possibly the use of stimulants 
delayed the fatal termination in one case. It was held by 
many as a strong argument against the supposed specific 
character of the disease, that it extended less widely and 
showed in a less marked degree its contagious character than 
during the European epidemic of 1865; while the fact that 
it did not affect a herd stalled in sheds in the neighbourhood 
of those occupied by Mr. Keele’s cattle* was considered 
# I refer to the cattle kept by Seujee, and stalled at the Horse Bazaar. 
I do not know what precautions were taken to guard against the introduc¬ 
tion of disease among these animals ; but I can speak positively as to the 
care taken by Mr. Keele to prevent extension from his sheds. The affected 
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