PLEURO- PNEUMONIA.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 2, 15 May 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

PLEURO- PNEUMONIA.

A meeting of graziers and veterinary surgeons was held lately at Leipsic, to take into consideration the best mode of preventing the spread of the lung inflammation among horned cattle. Measures, such as the coufinement of the diseased animals, the prohibition of all sales, &c, found zealous advocates, but the majority admitted that all coercion, however ingeniously arranged, becomes difficult in practice, and that any restrictions to trade in cattle would be ruinous to the feeder as well as to the breeder. That principle having been admitted, the conference turned upon the other measures of precaution, and some curious facts with respect toinoculatiou were listened to with great attentiou. This practice, which was first tried some tens years back, was at first strongly opposed, both in Germany and France, but it was finally adopted when the malady was prevalent. Professor Haubner, a Saxon veterinary surgeon, calculates the disease called pleuropneumonia carries off from 25 to 50 per cent, of the animals affected by it, whereas in the districts where inoculation has been practised, the loss does not exceed 10 per cent., and the mortality is sometimes reduced to 2 per cent. This Calculation has been confirmed by observations ms.de in the neighborhood of Madgeburg, where it has been practised on a large scale for the last nine years, and where the local practitioners, without any official character, have inoculated as many as sixteen thousand head of cattle. It has been further ascertained that this remedy is useless unless adopted in time, and that it may be likewise used as a preservative for animals in good health as well as a remedy for diseased animals. The farmers who attended this meeting more than once expressed their apprehension that the inoculation of hea by animals might introduce the disease into their farmyards. Professor Haubner stated that of 100,000 inoculations, not one had produced any injurious effects— Field.