Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-27
THIRD EDITION,
PIeurO Pneumonia.

COMMUNICATED.
Tb,s d;sease has, perhaps, received
more attention during the past winter
frnm d distinguished veterinary surgeons
and investigators than any otner ois
case in veterinary pracucs. IL
80 fertile does this subject seem 10
ba tbat IL is hardly possible to take up
any medical journal without encounter
ING some contribution TO the supJect,
and still, with all that has been wntteh
concerning this disease, aad al the
new remedies that have been suggesteu
for its treatment, 1t is as fatal to-day 70
MANY practitioners rs when 1t was IN
It's infancy.
II seems to me the more Theoretical
the practitioner the more experimental
fis treatment, when from my own ex-
Derience find that pleuro pneumonia
IA more successfully treated rom |
commo sense point Of view. BY many
there seems to be no treatment, therefore
many of our valuable cattle die, but
better day is dawning information on
the subject is loudly called for; but 1t
must be a safe and more efhcient sys
tenn than that heretofore practiced.
The OBJ ject of veterinary art is not on
" cong enia! with human medicaton'
but the very same paths that lead 10
also to a knowledge of those oil
brute.
1t is, however, apparent that the
vet been m sarfsIRaeumonia has not, az
department of the disease is less und1r
stood or more involved in doubt than
the cause many attribute it to dis.
ease germ, in which l can not entirely
agree with them no doubt but this
germ exists in the diseased lung, for, by
careful analysis, have detected them
myself. These germs are known al
micrococci their presence can only b,
detected under the light of a powerful
microscopes; they are small bodies, mes
suring from $4,000 to 10000 of an iuch il
diameter they are generally separat-
though at times united in pairs, show
ing positively that they are capable o
multiplying.
also have from good authority tina
this germ OF pleuro-pneunonia is identi
cal with that of human pneumonia, a.
SO as to their mode of growth, ami
further identity ~ to the results Of in
ocuiation. by. experiments shown
that pleuro-pneumoniai in cattle has bee
produced by incubation of these germ.
micrococci, from human pneumonia a
we'll as by incubation OF the germ
from pleuro-pneumonia OF cattle.
do not claim that this disease is NJ
contagious, for no doubt coutagion IL
most active cause in the diffusion of IL
disease ; and now it is only natural
say that if the germ of human pneum
mia, as heretofore stated, and pleur
pneumonia in cattle are identical
every respect, why is pneumonia Il
co ltagious in the human family? No,
1 have not tbeorized on this subject, b
by looking over the works of the lat
editions, | find there Is consiG crab
doubt as to whether it is not contagiol
as is evidenced By large number
people suffering from it, at times in &
same vicinity and in close proximity
one another; and no doubt but num-
pneumonia IS caused by dampness, 6
posure TO cold, change of tenperatu
etc, and as these two diseases are Of
erwise similar in every respect. ella
that pleuTo pneumonia in cattle con
from the same cause, and It's fatality
due to the po5r hygienc surrouudir
that the beasts are subjected to in ma
cases.
We frequently see the stables O.
verted into real ovens by not maxi
them sufficiently large or by crowdi
thu Iii to excess, or preventing the acc
OF air from without; all this witb'
recol!ecting that the skin thus excl
must fall into state of depression IL
short time.
Most farmers in winter feed tn
cattle III the barn to augment the IN
ofdung; many times they are left
their excreta up to their knees. Now
of these things have a tendency to
nress the physical powers of the be
and render the system more liable
disease and less able to Withstand
assaults, al d the lung being the m
sensitive organ In the animal ecouom
it is but natural that when exposed
the co in any way they suffer fir
Inflammation of the lung. and 80 cal
pneumonia, and the'inhammation
tending 20 the pleuro or covering
the iung, 1t results in pleuro pr
monia,
Now, when cow Is suffering fr
this disease, the lang at first beco
corgestei, and finally breaks dc
secretng pus, which is in its chara,
poisonous. In this stage the diseas
contagious, and the calculations of
animal lmpregnate the air with u g
or low form OF organism. possessing
capable of inOculatiug healthy tbs
1t II, in my judgment, very err
Gus idea to destroy the life Of valu;
animals suffering from the stated
ease, inasmuch "a yop would not
contemplate like ~ it'iIpIit of the 8;
disease wher it at;-ct, the human
ject.
Stock proper,y quarantined
treated correctly can be cured
restored to their former good he
ard usefulnesss.
have already been "a
lengthy in discussing the disease, Il
fore will defer the treatment fol-
present. Respectfully,
JoIIS SCOTT, "
Wilmington Del, June 23d, 1856