Thermometry in contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
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THERMOMETRY IN CONTAGIOUS PLEURO¬ 
PNEUMONIA, 
Jiv Ei>. Dele. 
Continued from page 191. 
What can be said of the citation of Mr. Brown, as already 
mentioned, that a flock of animals which had been exposed to the 
contagion of pleuro-pneumonia, must be divided into two lots; 
one, B, composed of healthy animals,with a normal temperature; 
the other, A, containing those whose temperature is above 103° 
Falir., and to transfer from B to A the animals whose tempera¬ 
ture would have been noticed once a week f 
We must say, flrst, that the increase of temperature does not 
come before the apparition of symptoms, which, I will admit, 
may belong to other diseases as well as to plcuro-pneumomia: 
loss of appetite, of rumination, of milk, etc. Again, one must 
not lose sight that one animal from lot A is removed ; he must 
not be transferred to B ; the increase of temperature which it 
shows may depend from another disease : he must be isolated , for 
fear that in lot A he may become affected with the disease of 
one of the animals whose temperature is more than 103° Falir. 
It is thus that No. 8, observ. 8th, had an (edematous painful 
swelling in front of the mammae, with a temperature of 39°. She 
was not separated from the others. 
No. 3, observ. 8th, which had calved the 4th of November, 
had a temperature of 39°2 the 11th, 40°5 the 14th, 39°5 the 
15th, 38°3 the 18th, 38° the 21st, 40°G the 23d, and gave 27 
litres of milk. She was not sick—was not separated. 
No. 4, observ. 8th, had a temperature of 38° 2 the lltli of 
Nov.; the owner had her isolated the 17th, and the next day she 
showed a temperature of 38°3. 
