The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-03
TuE REPORT OF DIR. M,oLuRE,

TUE REPORT OF DIR. MOLURE,
in full is as follows:-
AS like produces like in the breeding OF ami
mails, so does 1t in the development of intec
tious and contagious diseases both in men ana
In the lower order OF animals. Ii this was not
well-known natural law, we could scarcel,
call in question the various accounts that have
reached us by newspapers of the cattle disease.
We have said DdriOuS because there are no less
than three (3) different diseases named Wit
The Tick duease "a disease of an irritatve
power, of the West Indies and some places Iu
the Orient); CONTAGIOUS Typhero OF DR. Harris,
OF the Board OF Health OF New York city
(Rmderpest). and lastly the Pleuropneumonia,
or Massachusetts Cattle disease of fe years
ago-au affection chiefly attacking mitch cows.
Now, then, the question arises, have we three
different diseases, or is there only one. and what
is II, and who is 10 be believed in this matter?
Thus, Or. Harris, of New York city, says 1t is
malignant. Professor Gamgee says that Texas
cattle give rise to a disease among the cattle Of
the West that the Texas cattle never had Ga
strange vlew), and says, first, that the flesh of
such affected animals is not injurious to the
health OF the human family. Second. Mr.. Gam
gee says that 1t is dangerous for man to eat of
such diseased meat. There are lesser lights
giving ideas about this disease of cattle, but not
of definite character. .-.... ..
Now If one man, butcher, has really died
from CIT on his haud coming in contact with
certain Virus or Zymollc product, by lying
under the skin of n diseased bullock, then
clearly that animal was sick of blood disease
or poison (Typhosus of some kind) in the man
ner just enunciated, aud would show DR.. Harris
to be right in his views of the matter, But is
Professor Gamgee to be relied upon when he
says that Western cattle are diseased by coming
in contact with Texan cattle perfectly healthy
We think the view absurd and not worthy of
thought, The fact of the Western animals being
sick on their journey and arrival at the yards OF
the Atlantic cities can be very readily explained
from the manner of transportation in crowded
cars-want of water aud pure air, and not get
ting their usual food, during warm season
almost unprecedented. We would say to farmers
and others that they have more to dread from
the Massachusetts cattle disease, as it exists in
Kentucky, Ohio, and other places, than from
Texas and Western animals. .. r. ..
But ii must be borne IN remembrance that if
DR.. Harris of New York is right in his views of
the disease when it arrives at New York, that it
is readily produced by the causes just named,
and that diseased animal escaping from the
yards or cars will produce the same disease in
other animals of the same species wherever
found. But on the whole, we think there is
more smoke than fire, and that this disease will,
like the warm weather, vanish at its proper
season, and that for the present there is no dis.
ease OF cattle for farmers to dread, if il be not
the PleuropDeumonia of milch COWS, which, like
the poor, VIII always be with us.