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amongst nine cows, one which presented suspicious symptoms of 
pleuro-pneumonia; her temperature was 40°. She was killed. 
In the others the thermometer varied between 37.5° and 38.5°. 
Inoculated, the operation was successful with six. 
3d. The 24th of May, 1876, I visited at Keeten, stables in¬ 
fected with pleuro-pneumonia. In one of the sheds, where several 
animals had died with the disease, a cow thought suspicious by 
the owner had been placed the morning of my visit. In her, 
neither my companion Mr. Buerts, Veterinary Surgeon, nor I, 
could find any symptoms of the disease. We then took her 
temperature, it was raised to 40°; certainly the disease would 
soon be manifest. 
4th. The 26tli of May, 1876, I was called at Borgerhout to 
decide if a cow was affected with pleuro-pnemonia. She was 
down and unable to get up ; and, therefore, auscultation and per¬ 
cussion being impossible, I took her temperature in the rectum. 
It registered 38°, and I concluded that the animal had not the 
disease, as proved the next day at post mortem. 
5th. The lltli of June, 1876, a cow was sick at Anvers. 
Another had been killed three weeks before; I had her lungs 
exhumed and satisfied myself by examination that she had died 
with the disease. I had no doubt that the animal in front of me 
had pleuro-pneumonia. I could not doubt it when her temperature 
marked 40.5°. Two other cows which had been tied with her 
had a temperature of 38.9° and 38.3°. The first cow was killed 
and showed the lesions in the lungs. The other two are yet 
healthy, but I fear they will ultimately succumb to the disease— 
they were not inoculated. 
Without mentioning other observations, I think from the 
above the following conclusions can be admitted. 
1st. When a bovine shows a temperature of 38.9° to the 
maximum, pleuro-pneumonia is not to be feared. 
2d. If, in a herd which had been exposed to contagion, an 
animal shows a temperature of 40° or above, she is suspected and 
must be isolated. 
3d. In an infected herd, the bovine animal in which the ther¬ 
mometer shows 40° or above will probably contract the disease. 
