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Going Bros, and Finlay there was neither collapse nor trans- 
lucency, but a great enlargement and consolidation, with a granu¬ 
lar state of the cut surface, and the whole interspersed with the 
characteristic yellowish white markings. One set of lungs 
weighed before their eyes amounted to 26 lbs., in place of 3 or 4, 
as they would have been in health. The testimony to this is 
ample—professional and otherwise. From these facts may be 
inferred the reliability of the men who on this side of the Atlan¬ 
tic are seeking to obstruct a work which is as vital to our live 
stock interests at home as it is to our foreign cattle trade. 
The two parties who have united their forces for this effort 
at obstruction seem to be about equally ignorant of the nature of 
evidence. “ The New York College of Veterinary Surgeons,” 
sitting quietly at their desks in this city, set forth in a report 
to the British consul that “ the disease under inspection by the 
Privy Council of Great Britain is not pleuro-pneumonia.” On 
his part, Professor Williams, sitting in his easy chair in Edin¬ 
burgh, Scotland, evolves from his own inner consciousness “ that 
the disease at Blissville is something very different from pleuro¬ 
pneumonia .” Ordinary pathologists prefer to see the cases they 
pronounce upon, but to these eminent men an interval of 3,000 
miles between physician and patient appears to be a decided 
advantage. 
Williams’ argument appears to be that the steers ex the “ On¬ 
tario” which were killed at Liverpool, had not the contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia, therefore the cattle at Blissville had not. But 
the steers were shipped on the “ Ontario,” at Portland, Me., 
which port they reached by the Grand Trunk B. R. of Canada, 
so that they had never been within 300 miles of Blissville. The 
present attempt to connect the sick cattle on the “ Ontario,” with 
the sick at Blissville may mislead a careless or superficial reader, 
but to the considerate can only condemn its authors. Inasmuch 
as cattle are never carried from such a place as the Blissville 
stables westward, we might as logically deduce the nature of the 
cattle disease at Blissville from the known character of the pre¬ 
sent plague among the horned cattle of Turkey. 
Without professing to decide as to the nature of the disease 
