THERMOMETRY IN CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
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handling or cutting up of the bodies should not have anything 
to do with the attending or feeding of the healthy ones. 
I have the honor to be, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
D. McEACHRAN, F.R.C.Y.S. 
The Honorable 
The Minister of Agriculture, 
Ottawa. 
THE THERMOMETRY IN CONTAGIOUS PLEURd 
PNEUMONIA, 
BY ED. DELE.* 
The inquiries which I have the honor of presenting to the* 
Academy of Medicine of Belgium, were made exclusively upon 
cattle, in a physiological as well as a pathological condition, 
specially concerning the exudative contagious pleuro-pnemnonia 
which prevails amongst the dairies of our large cities. 
The thermometer that I have used was a mercury centigrade 
instrument, measuring from 2° to+5°, 0,47 centimeters long, and 
each degree divided by 10 , each corresponding to a little less than 
one millimeter. 
In cattle, it is by the introduction of the instrument in the 
rectum that the temperature is best taken; this is easy ; it is 
sufficient to prevent the animal from moving, which is readily ob¬ 
tained by scratching the animal on one side of the tail while that 
organ is raised. 
I have remarked, in the Veterinary Journal , that the use of 
the thermometer is a part of the examination of English veterin¬ 
arians who apply for appointment of inspectors of ports. 
Physiological temperature of cattle .—I do not pretend to be 
the first who has noticed the normal temperature of cattle ; as 
* Translated frern the Anuales de Medicine Veteriuaire Brussels, by A. 
Liautard, M.D.,Y,S. 
