The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-10-21
pLEURO.PNEUMONIA
Nature Of the Disease-Appsarance after Deaf
-lts Ravages-N0 Single Case Of Sickness Eve
Traced to the Use of the Neat.

Nature Of the Disease-Appearances after Deaf
-lts Ravages-No Single Case Of Sickness Eve
Traced to the Use Of the Neat.
New York Market Journals: 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 10 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 102 degrees may be looked
upon with suspicion; above 1O2 deg. or
1O3 deg. they are diseased. The first
noticeable indications are loss OF appetite,
slower rumination and a 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 the second stage the animal grows
more fsverish stands with it's lore logs
wide apart and its mouth open;
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 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 convalescence may be rather tar
dy, running through months even,
and during all OF which time the animal
estimated at from 20 to 25 per cent. in
mild invasions. In severe epidemics they
range as high as 90 per cent. The average
of exposed cattle which take the disease in
this country has been estimated at 2S per
cent.
Among the predisposed courses OF the
disease are, distilled food too rapid fatten-
ing, excessive milking marshy pastures. cold,
damp, exposure, hot, damp stables, changes
OF food and of climate. overcrowding, etc.
Authorities differ on the distance which
the infection may be carried through the
air; some say not more than II to Is 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 contagion is generally supposed to
be from So to say 200 feet.
The appearances after death are,
the lungs enormously enlarged and
hepatlzed throughout ike nver, nell
ther the heart nor stomach is much
affected. The flesh is in no way
different in appearance from that OF a
healthy OK, in the same condition as to
fat.
From I'LL to 1859 this lung pestilence
destroyed 2OO,OOO,OOO head OF cattle in
Europe It reached Prussia in 1902, Eng
land in S41, where in 1856 it proved ia
tai to 500, 900 head in eighteen months. 1t
came to Brooklyn in 1S43, New Jersey
in 1914, to Brooklyn again in 1850 and TO
Boston in 1859. Switzerland has been
called the home OF fpleuro-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 after use
by injected stock. All intelligent au-
thorities concur in saying that on hy-
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 cattle. 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 consequences have been traced to
its use. And as with the flesh, SO with the
milk, which the most enlightened pbvsi-
clans pronounce harmless.