Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-19
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tie may have the disease in q mild form, unob.
served, and of course have the Dower of pro-
pagation." Now that cattle NAV have this
disease or any other disease Gin mild form,
unobserved, or more probably in so mild
form that il never would be observed DO not
doubt. But that these cases, or any other
cases, ''of course, have the power of propaga-
ton" deny. Begging freedom of my learn
ed friend zone of the medical board, " this is
the very question at issue, and to settle which
the "nedlcal board" was created Is this
disease contagious % and no dogmatic "of
course" becomes one OF the scientific board in
this stage of the investigation.
If it be true, that any of Mr.. Chenery's
cattle lave, now, this disease in its prOpagat-
ing stage, ii has been lurking i'll the system
from ten to sixteen months, it being now some
sixteen months since the disease is alleged to
! have been imported from Holland, and ten or
| twelve months since the last new case on his
farm. 1t follows, then, that the stages OF in
| cubatlon and propagation must extend over
period, at least, OF ten to sixteen months, =
how much longer nobody can know till those
having the affair in charge can satisfy them
selves and the public" Ii this be true then
indeed there is an "dbSollHe necessity of keeDinq
a rigld quarantine Of isolation If this be true,
II disease so malignant, SO fatal, and so iney.
ltably contagious can Turk so long in the sys-
tenn in its propagating stage, or in any stage
to which the prOpagatlng stage can succeed
then 1t is an absolute necessity" that the law
authorizing the towns to adopt these yeXatious
and mlschevouS cattle regulations" should
stand unrepeaed and be enforced. Brighton
cattle tair should be closed, and all ingress or
egress of cattle, into or out of the state, or
from town to town, should be prohibited
But it is not true. We simply deny it, and
we have right to stop there. The burden Of
proof rests upon those who assumed to inter
tere with the natural course of honest indus
try No 'of course" will answer. l have the
right TO go to Brighton to buy or sell cattle and
drive them wherever please within the state,
until it is proced that | thus inhct loss on my
fellow citizens and 10 man and no authori-
ties can deprive me OF that right without reas.
enable proof OF the absolute necessity" of the
prohibition.
Now affirm, first that this assumption of a
propagatlng period Of ten to sixteen months
cOntradlcls all the ascertained laws (if there
are any and all the respectable theories of
contagious diseases. From four to eight
weeks is about the limit of both the incubating
and propagating stages and the medical prac.
tltiOner who shoald report case of small pox,
measles, whooping cough, or of any of the sim.
liar diseases commonly regarded as contagious
back to an exposure from ten to sixteen
months previous, would be set down as an ar
rant quack.
And affirm, next, that not a single fact can
be Produced OF case Of pleuro pneumonia re-
sultlhg IRON an exposure half OF ten months
previous. The "boOks" are against the as
sumption OF zone OF the medical board :" and
not tact can be proved showing that this
pieuro pneumonia is, if contagious at all. an ex.
cepton to the general law.
Further, not only is there net fact TO sus
tam this theory, but all known facts are against
it.
In their report to the governor last Nav,
the commissioners stated that they had killed
o42 cattle, diseased and sound; :" they also
stated that they had 'isolated'' 1865 Others.
diseased, exposed, and suspected" These
1000, be it borne IN mind, were to be killed
their "entirc destruction being lin the lam
gnage Of the report the remedy demanded by
the practical farmer" and all that they asked
the extra session to be called for, was that an
appropriation might be made to pay for kill
my these cattle. l say, that until the funex-
pectcd opposition they met set people to think
ing fer themselves, they assumed il as settled.
that these 1906 cattle, eve,y one of them. had
been exposed, just as much as any of the 84l
they had killed; that every one OF them might
give the dsease-and therefore every one
must be Killed and yet, from that day TO this,
not u Symptom Of pleUro pneumonia has ecer an
pedred an one ofHeSe 1865 CATTLE All are alive
anu well. | repeat, then, the facts are all
against their theory.
But it is said, "the disease is latent and will
break out again next winter" PERHAPS it
VIII. Cattle badly fed or crowded into rooms
or stables badly ventilated, will very likely be
SICK OF peuro pneumonia or something else.
II "one OF the medical board" should advise
the farmers to give their cattle a air chance
Tor health and life, TO attend especially to diet.
cleanliness, ventilation as Il preventive or pro.
lection against possibl contagious influences of
the disease, nobody would object but this
revival and stimulation of the panic by Cog
matte assumptions of the existence of 'sunob-
erVed, mid cases, now passing through the
preparatory period" against all law and NIL
facts, Is unworthy OF scier titic board Their
business Is careful investigation, large general
zallOn, and cautious conclusions.
no would be willing to admitone ofthcse
Belmont cattle into his herd % asks DR.. Mar !
IN, trlumphantly. l would and | here re-
peat the offer l made to the Doctor last Nav:
VIII take as many of the Belmont cattle"
" any other cattle, diseased, exposed, or sus
'ected," as can be accommodated in INV
'arn. If that will not hold all that ore
fered, | will build another barn for
he purpose. They shall stand side bv
ide with my COWS, and if five ner cent
hat is, one in twenty of the exposed or sms,
ected," or of my own cows exhibit well.de.
ned symptoms Of contagious pleuro-nnenmo
! the npxt rioIt mr. tufI'.a 's e',9I'''e VIM
ill pay one thousand dollars towards nrovid.
lg at Hazard college, a professorship or a lee.
pom diseases of cattle if nor his nronnr,o