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eaw three of the eases and they were undoubtedly genuine eases 
of contagious plcuro-pncunionia. In June of the next year 
(1874) I attended an outbreak on an adjoining farm. About 
forty cows were affected. I treated thirty-three, live of which 
died. I made post-mortem examination of three, and found all 
the lesions and post-mortem appearances belonging to the above 
disease. The treatment given the cases was simply general and 
special stimulants. The small mortality in the outbreak can 
hardly be attributed to the treatment, but rather to exhaustion of 
the infecting virus. Isolation was strongly urged, but could not 
be effected, owing to the failure of the community to appreciate 
its contagiousness. The cause of the outbreak is unknown to me 
outside of the testimony of the owners of the affected cattle. In 
both instances they had bought strange cattle, one or more of 
which were coughing, and apparently not thriving. Undoubtedly 
this was the manner of introducing the disease, yet it needs con¬ 
tinuation. During the summer just passed (1877), a very serious 
and fatal outbreak has prevailed in the adjoining county of Hun¬ 
terdon, iu the neighborhood of Clinton and Lebanon. Of its 
cause I know nothing. The disease is a terrible scourge to some 
localities of that State. An investigatian of its cause and the best 
means of stamping it out is no doubt a subject worthy the atten¬ 
tion of the Department of Agriculture.’ ” 
In the May number of the Review, 1878, page 87, in the re¬ 
port of a meeting of the Hew York State Veterinary Society, 
J. D. Hopkins, Secretary, says: “A. A. Holcombe called atten¬ 
tion to a recent outbreak of this disease in the southern portion 
of Hunterdon County, N. J., and cited the fact that pleuro-pneu- 
monia is rapidly spreading over that State, and he thought the 
time was rapidly coming when we will be called upon to prevent 
its further progress, &c.” 
Can any one believe that a veterinary surgeon who knows the 
history of contagious pleuro pneumonia, after giving expression 
to such statements as above quoted, could for a moment doubt 
u the correctness of the rumors of its existence 
We have no desire to detract in any way from the credit due 
1 rof. McEachran for the interest which his visit last January 
