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ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
their occurrence. Although the number of diseased animals 
in each commune was very small, yet there were eleven com¬ 
munes belonging to four districts infected towards the month 
of June. From the researches undertaken by H. Adams 
and his colleague H. Mayrwieser, it was discovered that the 
disease had been imported by Italian herds from the Tyrol, 
which were infected before their departure, as some of 
them became ill in three or four weeks after their arrival, 
and others only after a long period. 
This disease frequently passes from the Tyrol into eastern 
Switzerland, especially into the cantons of Appenzell and 
Saint-Gall, and demands, therefore, the enforcement of severe 
measures. The Tyrol is, like Wurtemberg, a region in which 
there is much risk in buying cattle, owing to no steps being 
taken to extinguish the disease. Indeed, in Wurtemberg 
the spontaneity of the disease is believed in, and inocula¬ 
tion is recommended to modify its ravages.— JVochenschrift 
d’ Augsbourg , 1872, Recueil. 
DEATH OF PROFESSOR FURSTENBERG. 
Continental veterinary medicine has sustained a heavy 
loss by the decease of Herr Fiirstenberg, professor at the 
Agricultural Academy of Eldena. Not altogether personally 
unknown in England—he was deputed by the Government 
of his country to visit England in 1865, in order to report 
on the cattle plague—this gentleman^ name has been very 
frequently brought before his colleagues on the Continent in 
connection with his very valuable and highly scientific con¬ 
tributions to veterinary literature. Among these are to be 
noted researches on calculi and other concretions; pleuro¬ 
pneumonia ; scabies; the diseases of the mammae, &c. He 
was also favorably known as a writer on veterinary hygiene 
and zootechny; and in addition to being a man of science, 
he was no less distinguished as an able practitioner—one 
always actively employed in raising the status of his pro¬ 
fession. Recently, he had been engaged in making osteo- 
logical comparisons between existing animals and those whose 
remains are discovered in the lacustrine and antediluvian 
strata. 
He died very suddenly on the 15th of last September, on 
his return from attending the Veterinary Congress at Frank¬ 
fort. 
