The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-05

The Cattle Disease In massachusetts.
EVIDENCE BEFORE TIE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES.
investigate the Of tho prevailing oste diseass
held an adjourned meeting in The Representative Hail. in
A large number Of witnesses-medical men and
others-who had been summoned present and
answered 70 their me witnesses were exa,nined
BY Mr. Wentworth. Of Lowell, for the committee.
Dr. Iorne, Of saiem-one Of tho Commi.oosr-ss,d
that he had known Of cattle beng killed. that were
setting seer 20 far - external Appearances
cerned, were getting better killed bad i-
parted the disease 70 twenty three yoke Of ca.e; he
BOXED we'll when he killed. apparently in rood COO
be IVES killed because be had beea opposed.
and believed that be had impaired the disease 10 the
ssos iss external ,n Of ns n was
about the size Of fowls gzzard Of the same color
nretembed decsyed cheese, snd was little harder; thh
substance was entirely distinct from toe otner parts OF
the lungs, the dsease having stopped there: nature
appeared to have enclosed the disease there; anslo
sous csses had been found 10 the human system be had
NO doubt the OK would have lived on, but whether n
would have been healthy another question; whether
the animal would communicate the disease o.hers was
Dos known and no observations In Europe threw any
They found that yoke Of oxen he'd given the disease
70 one esru aSo ss % .osn me as':ss vss m
communicate The disease. II ID impossible 70 tell how
soon the disease appears alter sanen There had been
anay sis Of the blood OF diseased animals hs disease
Ia communicated by the breath, by exhaiatons and by
mucus discharges from the ncssri he never hsd known
Of any other oseac Of the lungs Of animals 70 be conta
giousL
The disease not precisely the pero pneumonia but
smilsr to that dkeae Since be has been commits
sion nothing has been done In the way OF curing the d.
sease examination he's been made with object
in view. He believed the disease utterly ipcursole.
Casee MOI treated not Always fatal In favorable
cunssncee teen TO twenty per cent would prove fAtA
In other circumstances, from ninety 70 ninety ave per
oent BE thinks the most economical and most e1ectual
way 10 eradicate the okease 10 &, hill
Mr.. Chenery . herd has been very much soased. Tho
diseasc has been carried two three roos, IN the air.
with the wind blowing. when the air heavy be-
heved IN Europe thaa The dncsss may be carried IN the
clothes OF berdsncn.
In Eselapd when animals are first attacked with the
dh<sse, they are son&unss hastily aassd and killed Tor
beef all cattle are pot subiccs 70 the disease, but ID
ppossibe 10 es IN what conditions Of The system VIII
be taken.
foF. ". Hrd-An The animals killed, tAss we're az
amined we're dhsased cannot tell how large portion
were examined; the disease he communicated when
ever sctive We have heard Of no cass thai
cannot be traced 70 Mr. Chensrys hard this disease In
Europe subjected 10 sanitary reeulsions In some oascs
very stringent 10 some cases these regulations have
proved tucceeeful they generally kill an antman knovn
70 be dipessed, and Isolate ell Others
In answer 70 inquiries BY j. A. Andrew, Epo ana
others, Dr. Iorns explained Il some epgth shs system q
isolation adopted here and IN various European ooun-
rics be voulo be willing have cattle Of his own within
nall mile OF disossed herd; about two hundred post
morton exammat,ons have been nads and Ia ali cssss
The animals found 70 be dseased about seventy OF tes
died, and the others killed.