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GEORGE FLEMING. 
appeared in the spring, among the four-year-old goats which had 
been kept during the winter by themselves in small sheds. When 
they joined the other goats at a later period, the outbreak became 
general in a short time. Flocks of sheep associated with the 
goats without any disease resulting in them. Sheep-pox—a very 
fatal disease—had never been seen in that part of Norway. 
Boeck, who contributes his observations to the Deutsche Zeitschrift 
fur Thiermedicin for December, 1879, alludes to veterinary sur¬ 
geon Hansen’s observations with regard to the outbreaks in 1867- 
68-69 and 1874-75, in Gudbrandsdalen. In the first year the 
malady appeared in August in two different flocks, numbering 
170 goats, attacking without exception the males, kids and those 
in milk. In the males the eruption w T as sparse, and limited to 
some pock pustules on the scrotum. (In the following year the 
exanthem on the males extended to the inner surface of the 
thighs.f) Hansen was called in when thirteen of the 170 goat 
had died, and nearly all the others were affected. On examination 
of two of the carcasses, he found the eruption all over the body, 
and pustules and ulcerations on the mucous membrane of the 
stomach and intestines, as is often witnessed in malignant sheep- 
pox. The origin of the outbreak could not be accounted for, the 
goats not having been in contact with strange animals, and tliero 
was no similar disorder prevailing among other creatures. “ I 
have practised in Gudbrandsdalen,” says Hansen, “for twenty 
years, and I have never seen either cow or sheep-pox.” In the 
goatsheds were sixty cows and eighty sheep, but these remained 
healthy. 
In June, 1868, in another district of the same parish, Hansen 
was sent for to see a herd of goats, and of 114 eighty-four had 
eruption of pocks on the udder and teats; twenty were severely 
affected, and, in addition to the pocks on the lacteal apparatus, 
there were many on the inner side of the thighs and on various 
parts of the abdomen, some of them having ruptured and left 
tFrom this it will be seen that the male goats are as liable to the goat-pox 
as the females. It is the same with the rams associating with flocks of sheep, 
and which suffer as much as the ewes; and it would be the same with bulls or 
bullocks, did they consort with cows affected with cow-pox. Sex makes no 
difference. 
