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Excerpt from Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury: Transmitting in Response to Senate Resolution of February 10, 1882, the Report of the Treasury Cattle Commission on the Lung Plague of Cattle, or Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia
In estimating the true nature and cause Of the cattle disease, it must not be forgotten that Europe was about that time engaged in general warfare, an occurrence which has never failed to induce a universal extension of the animal plagues. Thus the Poles were waging a war with the Turks, the Swedes with the Russians, French, and Savoyards, and the French with the Dutch; and Hesse, where the plague was especially noted by the historian, was directly in the midst of the con tending nationalities.
That Valentini attributed the outbreak to the weather is not surpris ing, since physicians can still be found so antiquated as to attribute this and other animal plagues to the peculiarities of the seasons. But Valentini inadvertently furnishes further evidence of the justice of our position in reporting in the same year the prevalence Of the aphthous fever (foot and mouth disease) in animals and men. In the autumnal equinox from the last Of August in?ammation of the gurus, tongue, and mouth in men; in animals, in?ammation Of the feet was also Observed (sydenham, Opp., I, p. Both plagues were introduced by con tagion by means Of cattle driven with the armies. Equally careful historians would doubtless have noted these in most of the other coun tries of Europe as well.
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