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foreign animal plagues. In this case of rinderpest, whatever is applica¬ 
ble to cattle is equally so to all ruminating animals imported from in¬ 
fected countries. We might adduce illustrative examples, but the fact 
of the susceptibility of these animals is so well known to veterinarians 
that these may well be dispensed with. 
Other animals. —The rinderpest is not transmissible excepting to 
animals with multiple stomachs. Contrary to the opinion of some 
Canadian legislators, pigs are not susceptible to this pest. For cen¬ 
turies these have mingled with plague-stricken cattle in every country 
of Europe, but not a solitary instance of their infection can be adduced. 
A single occurrence has evidently started the misconception in question. 
In 1865, during the prevalence of rinderpest in the Jardin d’Acclima¬ 
tion, Paris, four exposed peccaries perished with what appeared to be 
unmistakable symptoms and post-mortem lesions of the disease*. There 
is no good reason to doubt that these were genuine cases of rinderpest; 
but it must be borne in mind that this pachyderm is furnished with a 
deeply-divided stomach, altogether unlike that of the pig—a formation 
that closely allies him to the true ruminant; and his implication in an 
outbreak of the plague cannot invalidate the uniform experience of cen¬ 
turies as to the complete immunity of the hog. Swine, then, like other 
non-ruminating animals, may be completely exonerated from the charge 
of harboring the germs of rinderpest within them, and may be freely ad¬ 
mitted after the whole surface of the body has been disinfected by 
washing with a solution of carbolic acid or chloride of lime. 
[to be continued.] 
