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isolated, as being indisposed. The 20th the temperature was 40°. 
Killed that day. I found pulmonary hepatization. 
Cow No. 10, 8th observation, which had been sick but twenty- 
four hours, presented, the day she was killed, a temperature of 
38°9. The disease had not been made out during her life. 
Amongst bovine animals, affected with other diseases than 
plenro-pneumonia, 1 have observed cases where the temperature 
remained unchanged (cow No. 1. 14th and 15th observation). 
These cows were sick from not cleaning after delivery. 
Cows No. 3, 5 and 6, especially No. 5, 7th observation, ate less 
and gave less milk. Their food was soar. They recovered after 
a few days. Their temperature remained unchanged. But I have 
observed some cases in which the thermometer had registered 
high in a marked manner. No. 8, 8th observation, temperature 
39° the 11 th of November, and which had an oedema of the mam¬ 
mae, recovered quickly, and the 18th of November, had a tempera¬ 
ture of 37°5. No. 3, 8th observation, temperature 39°2 the lltli 
of November, 40°5 the 14th, 39°5 the 15th, 38°3 the 18th, had 
only 38° the 21st. This cow had just calved, and gave 27 liters 
of milk. 
Another, which was in a stable where the pleuro-pnemnonie 
virus had been thrown off by two sick animals, became sick with 
indigestion by too rich feeding. Her temperature rose to 39° the 
30th of July, to 39°5 the 2nd of August, to come down the fol¬ 
lowing days, and on the 7th it reached 40°. She got well a few 
days later. 
Let us then conclude that the increase of temperature cannot 
establish a distinction between pleuro-pneumonia and other in¬ 
flammatory diseases. It seems, however, that it rises more in 
pleuro-pneumonia. One then may, at the most, by the increase 
of temperature in a cow which has been exposed to the pneumo. 
nic virus, suspect or fear the invasion of the peri-pneumonia. 
I will add that, generally, the veterinarian is called only when 
the disease has reached a period of increase, or of acme; it is for 
that reason that I always noted a temperature of 39° and 40°. 
Sometimes the veterinary surgeon is called at the last period, 
when the beast is about dying, and almost never when it is about 
