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Be ported Rinderpest. —Maine papers reported last week that 
John F. Rutter, of Ripley, lost five cattle by a disease which a 
veterinary surgeon declared was rinderpest. The animal were 
killed and buried by order of the municipal authorities. Fortu¬ 
nately the opinion of the veterinarian is not conclusive proof; 
not so very long ago a veterinarian declared that a case of conta 
gious pleuro-pneumonia had been found in the Chicago Union 
Stock Yards, and later that calves were dying by dozens in Iowa 
of that disease, but it is now known that no pleuro-pneumonia 
has existed in the West.— Breeders' Gazette. 
Trichinosis in American Swine. —A discussion was recently 
held in the Paris Academie des Sciences, regarding trichinosis in 
American pigs, and the prohibition of the importation of pork 
from this country (Le Courrler Medical , March 4. 1832). The 
majority report of the committee charged with the investigation 
of the subject embodied the resolutions here briefly subjoined : 
Resolved , That it is unnecessary to subject pork imported from 
America to a microscopical examination, with a view to prevent¬ 
ing the development of trichinosis in the consumers of this mea*t, 
because the culinary processes adopted by the consumers are 
found to completely guard them from infection. Resolved , That 
special circulars be distributed by the Government among the ru¬ 
ral population, for the purpose of warning against the danger ac¬ 
cruing from the use of raw or uncooked pork. These resolutions 
were adopted by an immense majority, and forwarded to the Min¬ 
ister of Commerce. 
Tuberculosis in the Central Nervous System of Cows.— 
Some interesting cases in which the above disease occurs are re- 
lated by a German veterinarian. The symptoms are characteris¬ 
tic: “In all cases the head is held high up (corresponding to the 
boring movement of the head in children), and in some cases 
twisted to one side. The eyes have a changed appearance. They 
are either staring, or else are directed forward, or there is some 
form of strabismus. Often the pupils are unequal. The limbs 
become stiff. The hind legs may be paralyzed, or the animal 
falls down, and remains on its side, with stiffened extremities, 
