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LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
small nodules, which were soon transformed into pustules. Most 
frequently these pustules ruptured soon after their appearance, 
fetid matter escaped, and only superficial sores remained ; these 
generally cicatrised rapidly. Where the skin was thick, cicatrices, 
often deep, remained. On the respiratory mucous membrane the 
pustular eruption caused an abundant formation of muco-pus, 
which sometimes caused death by obstructing the air-passages. 
Generally, however, a fatal termination seemed to be due to 
debility, septicaemia, or pyaemia. In birds which survived, com¬ 
plete recovery did not take place for a long time. 
(To be continued .) 
LAW RELATING TO THE PREVENTION AND SUP¬ 
PRESSION OF EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
Passed June 23 d, 1880. 
We, William, by the grace of God, Emperor of Germany, King 
of Prussia, &c., in the name of the Empire, with the consent 
of the Federal Council, and of the Reichstag, order the 
following : 
Sec. 1 . The following law regulates the measures to be taken 
in the interest of the prevention and suppression of contagious 
epizootics of domestic animals, rinderpest excepted. 
Are considered as suspicious animals in the sense of the law : 
Animals which present signs of such nature as to fear the 
eruptions of a contagious epizooty. 
Animals which do not precisely present signs of that nature, 
but which make it presumable that the contagious virus was com¬ 
municated to them. 
§ 2. The measures of prevention and of suppression, as well 
as the direction of the measures to be taken, will be given by the 
order of the government of each particular state and its organs. 
Special commissioners may be charged with the direction of 
those measures. 
