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Rinderpest (CATTLE PLAGUE OR RINDERPEST)

THE CATTLE PLAGUE, OR RINDERPEST.* animal looks sad and dispirited, if he exhibits an unwonted look of gloom, if his leaden eye seems fixed and astonished, be assured that this cruel The following comprehensive article on the Cattle Disease has been prepared from the best English authorities on the subject, by a promi- distemper is spreading through his frame. nent physician of Philadelphia.

The wide-spread interest at present felt in the serious disorder which is now prevailing in England and other parts of Europe, under the name of the "Cattle Plague," and which it may justly be feared is destined also to afflict the United States, renders it desirable to furnish, in a condensed and popular form, such information as can be relied on, as the result of the studies of scientific men.

In 1865, a most valuable treatise "On the Cattle Plague; or, the Contagious Typhus of Horned Cattle, its History, Origin, Description, etc.," was published by H. Bourguignon, Doctor of the Faculty of Paris, etc., etc. From it much of the following account has been condensed.