Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-27
MILLIONS LOST.
Ravaxes OF Murratn and Hog Cholera
I'm Tennessee and
IN Csuses of the Disease and How IL
Cam be Prevented.

The Causes of the Disease and How II
Cam be Prevented.
Nashville American: Learning that DR.. E
Y. Salmon, the eminent veterinary surgeon,
had been investigating the ravsges Of hog
cholera and cattle murrain in several coun
ties In Middle Tennessee, a representative OF
The american overhauled him yesterday, and
the following conversation ensued.
DR.. Salmon, is it true that in portions OF
Tennessee at present the common diseases Of
stock, murrain in cattle and cholera in hogs.
are prevailing TO any great exia-t7- w6af
parts are snH.ripS the mostf"
Dr.. Salmon-Yes, sir; the cattle and hogs
are dying in many parts of the State. Muir
rain has been very destructive to cattle. L
have seen the most OF it In Giles, Marshall,
Bedford, Lincoln, Moore and Franklin coun-
ties, but from many letters received il il pre-
vsiliog more or less all over the State. The
disease improperly called hog cholera is pre-
vailing in all three divisions of the State.
SIS there danger of these diseases spread
ing over the country, and how and by what
means are they carried from place 10 place ?"
II AN satisfied that both murrain and hog
cholera are infectious, and can be ~propagated
from one 10 another, and from farm to farm.
Infection travels fastest in the direction of
the wind sud down the wa~ter-courses. 1t ia
also carried by roaming stock, generally the
mules, travelling from one neighborhood to
another, with the disease in the stage of in
cubation. Sometimes the shipment of hogs
on the cars has been known to scatter it along
the line of the road, especially near the sta.
tons where the trains may have stopped.
That hog cholera is contagious has been
positively shown by the incubation of the
fluids of the unsound into the sound hog"
Doctor, / see from some OF the papers
bordering on Alabama where murrsin in
cattle is prevailing it is attributed 10 Ala.
bams cattle coming in. Ii this is 20 is il
not contagious, and would not quarantine
be advisable?"
"Thst the introduction of Alabama cattle
ia a prolific cause of murrain ia beyoud
question true. Wherever they are brought
and grszed disease is sure 10 result, and the
thing about it is they communicate
the disease TO the native cattle and do not
1t themselves. This has been so often
that stock-raisers in many localities
have determined to abandon them. More
than twenty-five years ago the citizens of
Warren county were 90 we'll satisfied of it
that they petitioued the Legislature and pro-
cured a statute against the introduction of
them into Warren county. Just how this is
done is hard to tell. Farmers generally at
tribute it to ticks, and this probable theory
may as we'll be adopted until a better one il
known, for they evidently become shipgIed
over just before the development of the dis
esse. Tit sudden appearance and rapid &C.
of ticks that are not natives of
10 a certain precursor of disease.n
81 understand you have a thesry of your
about the hog cholera, which, / hear, is
new. Will you be 80 good as to tell me what
theory lie, and wherein it differs from
other theories about this plague, which has
been 80 destrnctiye and rninous to the farm.
ers, and what are The evidences that your
theory is the true on-f"
"About the year 1877 l was committed to
a theory upon the disease known as hog
which has since undergone the scru.
my of scientific investigators and demon
to be true. Up to this time all
on the SUIT ct started out in their in
with The same common error.
coating the disease In some of the organs or
'oiids of the body. Some found the seat in
he liver, some IN the lungs, come in the kid.
1eys, bowels, etc. Others were 40 confident
o their opinions that they gave it names diff
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he medical profession, some called it
some rheumatism, and Others ty-
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