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TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE.
An Interesting Theory Regarding
Contagious Diseases.

Can they be Communicated by Wan
to Beast Are Grease Gland-
crs. MUrrain, Hog Cholera
and SMALLPOX the
Same Disease!
EDITOR -Bumstead's Gel
ebrated work speaks Gin tact, we W
to HIM the idea) of the duality OF the
poison-when it is once inoculated it is
always inoculated. We all know that
MANY of our most fatal diseases are
communicated from animals to
Why not from man, then, to animals?
From the horse, or man 1--WE think the
latter). originates the great plague thai
has annlhilated tribes and communities
of the different classes OF animals, and
forms the frightful malady described by
the ancients as variole nigre. or black
SMALLPOX, These questions interest
everybody and especially owners of the
different classes of animals that are
yearly swept off in great herds, in
Europe as well as here, amounting to
millions of dollars.
Farmers near large cities are contin-
ually exposed to the danger OF taking
on their pastures those infected horses;
not having the remotest idea that they
furnish the germ which spreads the
flame of destruction through the diff
ferent classes of ANIMALS, ramifying by
contagion in every direction along the
lines of travel. The great medical au-
thorities point to the horse as the start
inc point. Mr.. Trousseau lind vol. p.
1O77 says, that stJenner regarded cow
poX as originating in 4 disease peculiar
to horses, termed grease. Whenever
grease was observed in stables, cow
pox soon showed itself in the cow
houses. Gp. 113, I'd VOL Although
grease is undoubtedly transmissible
from horse to cow and from horse to
man, it loses much of its likeness to it
self by Transmission. Up. 115]. When
we see a disease undergo such remark
able mutations by transmission from an
animal of II species to an animal OF
another species, it ought not to be look
ed on as astonishing that grease should
also change its form when transmitted
to the human subject or the cow This
quotation shows that a disease in
PASSING FROM ONE SPECIES OF ANIMALS
to another. simply changes its dress.
like a magsot becoming a butterfly. This
disease (grease) in the horse may show
itself in various ways-but the most
prominent symptoms are pulled OF
swollen leg or legs with varying sized
and mostly round sores, a bloody, frothy
matter may ooze from their nose-out of
a number of cows the nose was affected
only in one instance. The prominent
symptoms are often absent and merely
q shedding OF peeling off of the hair, Il
a greasy scuff appearing or the hair as
sores seem to extend from the hoof up
wards, preferring the inner surfaces of
their legs. In the acute form the horse
seems to seek solitude, while in the
chronic he will Craze indifferently along
with the herd as if nothing was the mat
ter. The loss and peeling off OF the
hair, in conjunction with the round and
numberless ulcers, with their indurated
and elevated edges, have a striking re-
semblance to a disease that attacks mans
flesh, and, according to Bumstead, is in-
oculated for life, and is
HIS COMPANION TO THE GRAVE.
What a sermon to law-breakers, and
how few are aware of the intensity o II
the poison lurking in these ugly sore
legs of the horse. Whether by contact,
contagion, or the thistles acting as little
lances, we cannot say, but from the
above starts the CHAMBERS. and when
once started spreads itself in every d.
rection. From the grease or this dis
ease in the horse start these frightful
~ CATTLE 0~ Ill
Texas fever in this country. Herds at
ter herds are swept off, alike all over
the world. There are no Texas cattle
in Europe, but farmers stock have met
the same fate. Cattle grazing over pas
lures with diseased horses contract the
disease. The first attacked fall we as
if struck with the heat, or are found
dead in the morning with their eye or
eyes popped our of their sockets. Those
that linger will have bloody discharges
and blood will ooze from nearly all of
the mucous membranes of the body,
which corresponds to the black small
pox in man (or Hemorrhagic diathesis).
Watson, by Condie, states (p. 1, 1857
that this putrid or bloody form always
augurs in all cases a fatal result. These
animals have not been inoculated or
~vaccinated, and like the aborigines arr
attacked with this fatal form of (bloody
or black) smallpox. Thirty thousand
Indians, q whole tribe, were swept off in
six months, some bloating up and dying
in a few hours. incubation is simply
GIVING THE DISEASE INSTEAD OF CATCH
ING IT.
Vaccination (from the cow is simply
ir1 N tho licaoca ffc cr,,lI ,~.-
COW, but not to man, until the same dis
ease passes through the hog, when it
changes its dress and appears in man as
true smallpox. Hence the necessity for
the law forbidding pork to the chosen
people; they not being inoculated or
vaccinated, the disease would break out
with similar fatality among the ancients
as it did with the Indians of this coun-
try. What a beautiful (but terrible)
circle follows the sin of mantle same
disease passing from one species of
animals to another till it rebounds and
visits the human race in the shape of the
most terrible scourge known. Bv re-
ferring to Messrs, Trousseau or Watson.
we are struck with the similarity of the
symptoms of murrain and the putrid or
black smallpox. When this terrible
scourge breaks out in a community that
is unprotected by incubation or vaccin-
alton it often fingers till the last mem
Der is swept from the earth. So with
murraiu when once introduced on a farm
or into q herd of cattle; some bloat I'D
and die in a few hours. ANY that Inner
(either man or beast) with this fatal
disease, develop all of the disgusting
symptoms OF &
BLACK OR BLOODY SMALLPOX,
Such as intolerable stencil, sloughs, deep
seated assesses, also, around the Joints :
blood in the acute form oozing from the
mucous membranes of the eye, nose and
other outlets OF the body; cough; swell
ling of the face and limbs; paralysis of
their lower limbs (hindquarters5; con-
tagion; glancoma (result of pus in the
eye; breaking out on the skin; obstinate
constipation; uncomfortable diarrhua:
ptyalism ~(salivation) delirium. Twelve
or fifteen days after the acute stage.
when danger appears to be past, it
proves fatal by the deep-seated suppu-
%rations; or even later, from the absorb
ing of pus from the %numberless boils
that may form for months afterwards.
We now pass to what is commonly call
ed hog cholera. which has been, and is
at present, in many parts of the country,
playing sad havoc-sweeping off all the
hogs in many districts or wherever the
contagion is carried. When the swine