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1st. The absence of infiltration to the dewlap and the neck; 
infiltration which is constant and abundant in pleuro-pneumonia. 
2d. The absence of pleural exudation and of false membranes ; 
lesions always present in the contagious disease. 
3d. The generalization of the lesions in the lobules, in which 
the uniform general tint is so different from the irregularly spread 
lesions and the much colored aspect of the section of the pleuro- 
pneumonic lung. 
4th. The condition of the interlobular sections whose limited 
infiltration is not yellowish, but purplish, in the recently inflamed 
parts, and in which their narrow thickness is always limited ; 
while in pleuro-pneumonia the yellow and very abundant infiltra¬ 
tion renders them irregular, bosselated and very thick. 
5th. The hepatization of the parenchyma, which becomes 
more and more tearable, and its gradual transformation, charac¬ 
terized by acute abscesses, and an abundant purulent pigmenta¬ 
tion; all of which contrasts so much with the gradual induration, 
increase of tenacity of the pleuro-pneumonic structure, without 
any tendency to suppuration. 
EDITORIAL. 
RINDERPEST IN POUGHKEEPSIE. 
‘‘ An outbreak of rinderpest in Poughkeepsie having been 
reported to the State Board of Health, the Assembly has granted 
an appropriation of $5,000 to be used in suppressing the dis¬ 
ease.”— N. Y. Med. Jour., Jan. 14. 
It is to be regretted that such a statement should have found 
endorsement by so important a paper as the New York 
Medical Journal ; for, thanks to God, there is not a word of 
truth in it. Rinderpest is not yet amongst the list of contagious 
diseases of our domestic animals, and it is to be hoped that our 
health authorities will see that it never obtains a foothold in 
this country. We have already enough with what we have, and 
our live stock is already sufficiently threatened with other dis¬ 
eases, without having added to them the prospect of being deci¬ 
mated by rinderpest. 
