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of fermenting food, owing to its moderate price and convenience of 
administering is very great in this district. However numerous the 
cases that came under my observation were, I am unable to furnish 
reliable statistics to convey an idea of the convalescent percentage, but 
feel confident to say that of the patients that I operated upon recov¬ 
ered, not disregarding the incurable complications which may have 
existed. Also will I admit fhat amongst those that recovered, there 
might have been a small percentage, that would have rallied without 
surgical interference nevertheless, feel gratified at the result achieved 
by subsiding the unnecessary suffering the animal otherwise would have 
experienced, “which result is sufficient cause to justify its practice 
considering its innocence. 
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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Thanks to the measures taken by the different European gov¬ 
ernments, where the rinderpest had made its appearance; we are 
glad to read in our foreign papers that all fears of a large spread¬ 
ing of the disease are fast subsiding. Still the Journal d’Agri- 
culture of March 31st,. published in Paris, informs us that few new 
cases have made their appearance in England, one at Hull on the 22d, 
and two others in London. At Hull eight animals were destroyed, in 
London forty-one. 
However we hear that in Prussia, all measures have been suspended 
the disease being considered at an end. France still keeps a sharp 
lookout for the execution of her sanitary orders. Switzerland amongst 
European powers is the only one which has not taken extra measures 
against the importation of the disease: with full faith in the execution 
of the sanitary measures of Prussia, the Swiss government has not 
judged necessary to prevent the importation of cattle on its territory. 
The recent order issued by our Secretary of Treasury will probably 
have to be suspended as long as such good news come to us from 
Europe, at least as far as the rinderpest is concerned, but how about 
Pleuro Pneumonia, Variola, Venereal disease of Solipeds, &c. 
