Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-02

I raging in England is beyond mistake.
ltTbe proof Is perfect. Our reviewer says
q. 7rlla MOLE axe was niade the radical cnre IN
sevenfeen hundred and fartg-siX- - u nls ts'l.
,.,,-s,,f-F vears affcrward. This first order In
Council then urocels 70 glst y ii.Sli .S
! bqvp obviously dictHled those issued IN tue
I tt-ri,t - me rule laid down by Pope Clement
I VI plaque stricken beasts are 70 BE- killed and
hlr1ed with lime; the htter infected oy ilenl
died are 90 be cleansed FUN gated with SUI phuI
~ ~ s,ey-arr and wasied over with vinegar
I and waller. Men who tended ailing beasts are
I nol 4, 20 near sound stock til they have
Z changed their clothes and washed their bodies
! Couvalesceut cattle are NOT % be brought IA
l contact ygifh sound stock for a month"; Travel
! ing cattle are 20 be stopped on the nlgnW Way 5
for examination and me SICK oeasts llasi must y, -
! slaughtered. We have not yet seen one uieihou
! of cure tried In eighteen hundred and sixty
/ I'VE which was not tried and found wanting IN
] the plague Of seventeen hundred ana io1's
As to the contagious virus Of the dis
I ease it is described as
svin and subtle in the highest degree, and
! travels about with such sieaLlfiiness Liial ~
presence Is often unsuspectoo, unli lt ~
passed into the blood Of Us victim S, NJ ii-''.
i fests itself bv terribly destructive effects AT
frsl there Is no diflculty IN tracking ille tNlLS
! of me diStenper. ior ID travels. With animals
which have come from some knoWn center ~
] Infection 70 other sound beasts Hhl.l "a rs
soiourned with them. But, after 8 tlllls, llf
spread can not be Clearly trace. L-s
7 shaeF Inch have been near iniecie4 cAltie
have been known 20 cary the c',ultsl--l ~
great distances even pifsvif ~, ~ ,,,t. sf
diseased cattle, have become tiie .us,'s4 -
media 20 Pas, over tle .,'li't1s.' f,1-
I I..ssr carry ths contagious virus on
] theIr clothes, hands aud even t-elI
Z hair 60 hes .ihv cattle the veterinary surgeon
I 49, ~ --.sI.z rom being considered dfead-
Z m vsii|.Ie af Infection. III waters and run
( ming streHms. which have received the dfaih-
-ii5nreIS for tropagaTing the contaglun and
me wind carries with u particles OF virus nom
one laIn . anoiHeE' e. ls1 lC[ @ 4 ~, i. "a
sIel. cattle have travelled become sltogether
4 Infected FOR sound cattle which may De driven
over them"
It Is a law OF this bovine plague
that the further il advances from the
russian steppes TO the north and west,
the greater its malignity. On its native
steupes il kills about half the cattle il
attacks: when il reaches Hungary the
mortality rises 10 siXty-hve per cent;
and in England il Is upward Of ninety
per cent.
Prevention by vaccination, Of which
much is said, and which many suppose
10 be a new discovery, is an old thing,
and Of the many experiments that have
been made with il none have had encOlT-
aging results. The simple and only effec-
tive means Of keeping the plague out o
the country. are 10 absolutely prohibit
the importation Of cattle, or raw hides
under any pretenEe, from countries smlt-
ten with the pestilence. A recentOhicial
report, made in England, says:
e Every one who has had the plague IN his
premises should feel the responsibility which
tests upon him 10 destroy, by careful cleansing
and diSlufeCtiOu. every trace OF the disorder
which may be left on his pastures or stalls, or
NnsHN
litter. Under favorable circumstance Tor its
preservation, the contagious poison has been
kept with all Its virUleuce unll1 pared Tor
many months"
The RsUjeJg remarks:
I'VE have seen tllat in all probability the dis
order was introduced into this country py q
single beast. Nov Il, on the liberation OF cattle
traffic, single farm nay. even a single COW 1
the country has been called upon fQT great I
sacrifice iu vain, for The ioul place VIII Decollle
The new center from which cuntagion VIII rlidl- /
ate I'll was in fact from such infected localities
that the disease spraug up 50 continually, aiieI I
being subdued, during The LAST century
If the plague were once lOOsed upon /
this continent, and we have seen how /
easily it might be dOnel, the probability /
is that it would destroy millions Of cattle
before il could be subsided, and that ii |
might become natUralized on the steppes 4
Of Illinois or Texas, as on those Of Russia,
and break out at intervals here, doing
incalculable mischief repeating its his
tory in Europe, but spreading far and
wide with greater rapidity than ever
favored by our vast snd UnTe-
stricted system of the communication OF
the several parts OF our country with
esch other.
II is one Of the wise suggestions Of the
OF France, that il is within the
power of modern civilization, which has
30 greatly facilitated intercourse between
lie inhabitants of remote lands and
thereby increased the rapidiUy of the
march Of the pestilence that walks at
night and wastes at monday, TO track
he cholers TO its hEunts in the deserts of
Arabia, and enforce such regulations
here that il may be exinguished-the
low of the poison checked at the fountain
head.
There is an enlarged craftsmanship and
humanity in the idea; and il
may be applied TO the cattle plague a.
well IS 10 the cholera. The plague OF
beasts that now travels b. steam caIs
'rom the steppes Of Russia 70 the shores
lf the North Sea, may be hunted % It's
iisrant lairs on the same lines Of easy
.rausit; and the science, backed by the
'orce Of the West, can stitie in its birth
place in the East the malignant flame
lf the rinderpest, that otherwise steam
night disseminate 70 the ends Of the
Earth.