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recovering. I exceptionally have noted then the temperature (No. 
1, 10th observation). Yery seldom is lie called in the invasion 
stage, which is not surprising, as the disease is not recognized. 
Nevertheless, I was called tw'ice in that period (8th observation); 
the first time, November the 3d, for a cow, No. 10, which was 
sick since the day before, and whose temperature was 38°; the 
second time the 18th of November, for No. 4, sick since the 17th, 
and presenting a temperature of 38°3. Lastly, I visited a cow 
(12th observation), with a temperature of 39°5 and in which the 
disease was not made out till she was slaughtered the 23d. 
(To be concluded next number.) 
EDITORIAL, 
ERROR OR MISUNDERSTANDING. 
When, through the kindness of Prof. Walley, “ The Four 
Bovine Scourges ” came to us and was placed in our hands for 
review, it was with pleasure that we fulfilled the agreeable task, 
calling the attention of our readers to that most excellent work. 
But as we did so it became our duty to take notice of a part of 
the book, which was the report of Prof. McEachran to the Can¬ 
adian government relating to the existence of pleuro-pneumonia 
in the United States. Scarcely had the .Review reached its sub¬ 
scribers when letters came from all directions to different gentle¬ 
men, some from Canada, some from Pennsylvania, and before we 
had time to think what all this trouble could mean, harassed by 
questions from here and there, came the two letters from Prof. 
McEachran and Mr. Gadsden addressed to the Review, with 
special desire to have them printed at once. 
Well, now, the Review is a modest little periodical, and she 
tries to do her work in a quiet way, and it is unnecessary to try to 
give her a bad name or an unenviable reputation for ungentle- 
manly attacks , for she has as yet been, and we hope will remain, 
innocent of such a charge. 
We have already replied to the letters in the pages of the Re- 
