The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-10-21
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PLEuR0. PNEUM0A1A.
Nature Of tho Disease Appearance after Death
\ Its Rayases No Single Case Of siokness Ever
Traced to the Use al the Neat. III FL


/ Nature Of tho Disease Appearances after Death
Its Rayases No Single Case Of siekness Ever
Traced to the Use q the Neat.
New York Market Journal: The follow.
ing IN regard to euro.pnsumoniA, the
dreaded cattle sconrse, which has recently
broken ont la Chicago and other points. 30
cleaned from tho very best authorities on
the subject in America, England. France
and Germany: a
The disease Is divided into two stages.
In the frat stage the blood L. yiscid and
thick, in the second dark and fluid. The
fret may last from two to six weeks. The
earliest sign il 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 102 deg. Or
lob deg. they are diseased. The first
noticeable Indications are loss Of appetite;
slower Illumination and q short dry cough
which increases. The breath quickens from
10 or 25 to 80 per minute, the hair losses
it's lustre, etc. This is the most dangerous
stage SO far as other cattle are concerned.
In tho second stage the animal grows
more tsverish, stands with it's fore legs
wide apart and its mouth open;
it shows signs OF distress and
pain. The breath and bowel dis
charges are ietid. It froths at the mouth,
the eyes and nostrils discharge, The AMI
NAL wastes away and dies in from nine
days to three weeks. The disease is more
rapid with young and vigorous animals.
Recovery may take place in either stage,
but conyalescenca may be rather tar
dy, running through months even,
and during MI OF which time the animal
may inject Others. The deaths are
estimated at from 90 to 2S per cent. in
mild invasions. In severe npidemics they
Of exposed cattle which take the diseass In
this country has been estimated at 90 per
cent. W. n 81 y " 81
Among the pre- disposed courses Of tho
disease are, distilled food, too rapid fatten-
ing, excessivemil king, marshy pastures. cold.
damp, exposure, hot, damp stables, changes
OF food and OF climate, oyercrowding, etc.
Authorities differ on the distance which
the infection may be carried through the
air. some say not more than IL to Is feet;
Others place it az high aa ]. 900 feet. IN
Europe, water courses twenty. i've ieet wide
have been known to stay the plague; the
limit Of contagion is generally supposed to
be from 81 to say 200 feet. II rs s55
81 The appearances after death are,
the lungs enormously enlarged and
hepatized throughout like liver, nei-
tneEt tn9 e aearG nor BGOnnnCnsl ID mucn
affected. The flesh is in no way
different in appearance from that OF q
healthy OF, IN the same condition as to
fat. as.S
From HI to 1863 this lung pestilenoe
destroyed 200. 900, 900 head ofcattle in
Europe. It reached Prussia in 1902, Eng
landin 1871, where, in 1856 it proved ia
tai to 800. 900 head in eighteen m onths. It
came to Brooklyn in 1913, New Jersey
In 1874, to Brooklyn again in 1850 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 in pas
lures or feeding in stables months afteruse
by infected stock. All intelligent au.
thorities concur in saying that ON n.y.;
gienic 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 cattles The flesh Of
millions of such diseased animals has been
consumed in various parts Of the world,
yet there has never been q case where in
furious consequence have been traced to
It's use. And as With the fesh, 60 with the
milk, which the most enligh phyai.
eians pronounce harmless. 81