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ing this meat unless the alterations have been brought about 
by the disease in its last stages.” “ Meat is necessary for 
the preservation of human health, and pleuro-pneumonic meat 
is better than none. M. Loiset, of Lille, is of the same 
opinion. He has proved that during a period of nineteen 
years, 18,000 pleuro-pneumonic carcases have been con¬ 
sumed in his town without a single ill occurrence in con¬ 
sequence, and without the sanitary state of the population 
being in the slightest degree affected.” Next, “contagious¬ 
ness of pleuro-pneumonia is confirmed by the circumstance 
that its spread can be traced from its source to the remotest 
corners of the world. Its first appearance, so far as we 
are aware, was in 1750. The terrible scourge which was 
to cause so much ruin descended from the mountains of 
Switzerland, invading on the one side the Bernese Jura, on 
the other the French Jura. From these countries it suc¬ 
cessively passed to Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, 
England, America, &c., and more recently to the Cape of 
Good Hope and Australia. The dates of its invasion of 
these countries are accurately known. Thus it will in¬ 
sinuate itself into other countries where it is at present 
unknown.” This paper terminates with the discussion of the 
spontaneous origin of the disorder, and a full account is 
given of the experiments undertaken by the Prussian 
Official Commission as taken from an agricultural journal, 
Der Landwirth of the 5th December, 1871, reported by 
Dr. Ulrich, Royal and Departmental Veterinary Surgeon 
at Breslau. Pleuro-pneumonia, he says, “ must be con¬ 
sidered contagious. The experiments made by the Agricul¬ 
tural Society of the Ober Barmin district, as carried out 
by many practitioners, agricultural societies, and the Official 
Commission of Prussia, have proved conclusively that 
pleuro-pneumonia is communicated by contagion.” Dr. 
Krauss, Reporter of the Agronomic Committee, which met 
in full force in 1873 to resolve this question, has warmly 
contested that pleuro-pneumonia is not contagious, but after 
the experiments made at Moeglin, was compelled to ac¬ 
knowledge the contagiousness of the disease. Similarly, 
Dr. Wagenfield, veterinary surgeon at Dantzic, had pub¬ 
lished a work generally considered the best treatise on the 
subject, entitled The Pulmonary Disease of Cattle , in which 
he pronounced against the opinion of those who hold that 
pleuro-pneumonia is contagious, but in his Veterinary 
Encyclopedia, published later, he finds himself compelled 
to withdraw his former expression of opinion, and says the 
disease is very contagious. The Royal Academy of Agri- 
