Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1865-12-19
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s Dr. Edward Crisp, in a letter to the British
:. Lords of the Priyy Council which we find
published in late number of the Mark Lane
Cypress presents as the result of his inyes.
tigatiOns the following:
i. That the so-calied Seattle plarue or
typhus fever bears bat slight resemblance.
either IN ats symptoms or morbid appearances
to the typhus or typhoid fever of man. -
2 That looking to the symptoms and patho-
logical changes, and especially to the rapid
recovery IN some cases, the malady bears a
greater resemblance to some exanthematous
diseases In the human subject, injecting In
rudlmeptsS chiefly the mucous membrane.
3. Thatthe specific poison of this disease
alters the condition of1the blood, and effects
especially Esttain parts of the nervous system,
paraly yzingihe digestive organs, aud thus sap-
ping the foIndatiQns of life.
4, That the. disease is attended in most
cases with a specific eruption, or exanthema-
tous blush, affecting moro or less all the mu-
cous membrehe Is of the body. "a
O. That an animal may be suffering from
this disease in its first stage, without the pos
sibility of detecting it,iand in this way the
plague may be disseminated in our fairs and
markets to fearful extent.ss .s. -. siS
q. That there is no suficiehs proof that the
meat OF bulls, cows, oxen. calves and sheep,
IN the tirst stage of the disease, is Injurious
to human beings who partake of it.
z. That the poison of cattle plague 2
Cwith the exception of papular eruption on
tho skim produces no injurious effects when
introduced into the human system
3. That he best means of eradicating the
disease is to prevent all movements of cattle
and sheep for month or six weeks (except
Under special .circumstances,) and by the es-
toblishment of dead meat markets in all our
cities and towns.
Following this statement the Doctor says:
How the general opinion that the malady
IS OF a typhoid character, can have gained
ground, am at u loss to understand for not
only are the morbid appearances of the sheep
aud OK essentially different to those in typhoid
fever, but the symptoms bear little or no re-
semblanee to those present in these diseases.
The animal in "cattle plague is very often
in some districts fatally stricken down in "a
hours with seafcely,a ptemonitory symptom.
Of tho one hundred aud sixty oxen that died
at Crown Point, Norwich, the average dura-
tion of the attack was nearly tyenty-four
hours, and scarcely one of these animals was
treated so rapid was the progress Of the dis
ease. All of them died. The deadly poison
excrted it's subtle and baneful influence for
several days, as believe, without external
manifesto atoms; and then, when too late for
remedial n1cafures, the animals succumbed.
It is this concealed and latent character of tho
disease, as / said in my last letter that rem
ders all movements of cattle and sheep so
dang erous
The chief symptoms of this disease in cat
tie are described by DR. Crisp to be in oxen,
fever, with alternate paroxysms of heat and
cold; dull vatery eyes. with Tcdness Of con-
junctiVe tnetobrane; ]; discharges from nose and
mouth anxious and melancholy expression
of countenance; the head down, the ears
back; archsd spine, staring coat, rsdncss of
the nioith and fauces, feeble and quick
pulse; prostration of strength staggering
gait loss of appetite and Cessation of the
process; qaick respiration, moan
ing and grooming short, dry cough (some-
times; j tenderness about the lumbar region
of the spine; in COWS, suppression of the
tactical secretion, redness Of the rectum and
vagina, in many instances; constipation often
in the first stage followed by diarrhoea of
an offensive character, the evacuation haT-
ing peculiar smell, and being sometimes
tinged with blood. On applying the ear to
the chest the respiratory mnrlnur is but in :
distiRttly heard, the lungs hot being fully
expanded, and there is t,nfreguehtly a "bog-
gy feel" as it .is called, over the loins, from
the disengagement Of gas, The symptoms
vary much in different cases, according TO
the stage of the disease and to.the peculiari-
ties of constitution; some of them may be
absent altogether.