The four bovine scourges : pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, cattle plague, tubercle (scrofula) : with an appendix on the inspection of live animals and meat / by Thomas Walley.
- Walley, Thomas, 1842-1894
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The four bovine scourges : pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, cattle plague, tubercle (scrofula) : with an appendix on the inspection of live animals and meat / by Thomas Walley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LEEDS &V/E?T-RiniWC iii£Dici>-c«iRurc]CU sccirrf PREFACE. The Author has on various occasions, and by numerous friends, been asked to publish a work on Cattle Pathology. From the many claims on his time and energies, he has been quite unable to comply with their request. In the publication of the present work, he hopes to partially meet their wishes. He has chosen the four diseases—Pleuro-Pneumonia, Eczema Epizootica, Cattle Plague, and Tubercle, for his subjects; knowing, as he does, that they are of more importance to the stock-owner than all the other ills to which bovine flesh is heir. The three first-mentioned diseases are only too well known, the last is less perfectly so, even, it may be said, to Veterinary Surgeons. The matter contained in this work is, on the whole, a reproduction of the subject- matter of the lectures delivered by the Author on these diseases for the last six years in the Edinburgh Veterinary College. Those who know nothing of Tubercle may question its claim to a place amongst what may be called the bovine scourges, but, as will be seen on studying it, it is a more insidious (and equally deadly) foe to the stock-owner than either of the other three diseases. Bearing in mind that this work only claims to be regarded as a reproduction of lectures delivered, the Author has not wasted his time or attempted to exhaust the patience of his readers in discussing moot points; but has simply given a plain sketch of his own opinions and ideas, which have been founded upon a long and extended experience of the diseases in question. Into the nature of one of the maladies treated upon—Cattle Plague—the Author has not had the same opportunity of inquiring as has been afforded him with regard to the other diseases; consequently, he has not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506577_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
