The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-10-21
PLEURO.PNEUMONIA
Nature Of the Disease-Appearances after Deaf
Its Ravages-NO Single Case Of Sickness Eve
Traced to the Use of the Meat.

Traced to the Use of the Meat.
| New York Market Journal The follow
ing in regard to pleuro pneumonia, the
dreaded cattle scourge, which has recently
broken out in Chicago and other points. IS
cleaned from the very best authorities on
the subject in America, England, France
| and Germany:
The disease is divided into two stages.
| In the first stage the blood is viscid and
thick, in the second dark and fluid. The
| first may last from two to six weeks. The
earliest sign is given by the thermometer;
under 100 degrees the cattle may
be considered healthy, above that and
under 1O2 degrees may be looked
upon with suspicion; above 1o2 deg. or
! 103 deg. they are diseased. The first
! noticeable Indications are loss OF appetite,
slower rumination and Il short, dry cough
| which increases. The breath quickens from
10 or % to 30 per minute the hair losses
its ustre. etc. This is the most dangerous
stage so far as other cattle are concerned.
! In the second stage the animal grows
more fsverish, stands with its fore legs
wide apart and its mouth open;
it shows signs of distress and
pain. The breath and bowel dis
charges are fetid. 1t froths at the mouth
the eyes and nostrils discharge. The ami
NAL wastes away and dies i'll from nine
days to three weeks. The disease is more
rapid with young and vigorous animals.
Recovery may take place i'll either stage,
| but convalescence may be rather tar
dy, running through months even.
and during all OF which time the animal
may inject others. The deaths are
estimated at from 20 to % per cent in
mild invasions. In severe epidcmics they
range as high as 90 per cent. The average
OF exposed cattle which take the disease in
this country has been estimated at rs per
cent.
Among the predisposed courses OF the
disease are, distilled food too rapid fatten-
ing excessive milking, marshy pastures. cold
damp, eX posure, hot, damp stables, changes
OF food and OF climate, overcrowdlng, ETC.
Authorities differ on the distance which
the infection may be carried through the
air; some say not more than II to Il feet;
Others place it as high as 1000 feet. In
Europe, water courses twenty five feet wide
have been known to stay the plague the
limit OF contlgion is generally supposed TO
be from so to say 200 feet.
The appearances after death are,
the lungs enormously enlarged and
hepatized throughout like liver, nei-
Their the heart nor stomach is much
affected. The flesh is in no way
different in appearance from that OF IL
| healthy OK, in the same condition as TO
fat.
From I'LL to 100 this lung pestilence
destroyed 200, 900, 900 head OF cattle i'll
Europe 1t reached Prussia in SOP, Eng
land in S41, where. in 1S3o-6i it proved ia
tai to 500. 900 head in eighteen months. 1t
came to Brooklyn in 1913, New Jersey
in 1911, to Brooklyn again in 1880 and TO
Boston in 1859. Switzerland has been
called the home OF pleuro pneumonia. The
contagion is very subtle; the flesh OF dis
eased animals has conveyed the malady.
Cattle have caught it from grazing III pas
lures or feeding in stables months after use
by injected stock. All intelligent au-
thorities concur in saying that on by
genie grounds there is no reason to in
terdict the sale of such flesh as human
food: but due care should be taken with
regard to the spread OF the disease through
the meat to healthy cattle. The flesh OF
millions of such diseased animals has been
consumed in various parts OF the world,
yet there has never been case where in
furious consequences have been traced to
its use. And as with the flesh, so with the
milk, which the most enlightened pbvsi-
clans pronounce harmless.