Reports to the Lord Provost and magistrates of the city of Edinburgh on the pathological appearances, symptoms, treatment, and means of preventing cattle plague / by Andrew Smart.

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1866
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    opi]srio]srs of the phess ON DK SMAET'S KEPOETS TO THE ON THE PATHOLOGICAL APPEARANCES, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AND MEANS OF PREYENTING CATTLE PLAGUE. Lancet, September 30.—A very able Report by Dr Andrew Smart on the Pathological Appearances and Conditions of the Cattle Affection, and other forms of Epizootic Diseases at present prevailing among cows in Edinburgh, prepared at the request of the local authorities, has been pre- sented to the Lord Provost and Magistrates of that city. Same Journal, December 16.— Experiments on the Cattte Plague at Edinburgh.—The action of the local authorities in England contrasts unfavourably with that of the governing powers at Edinburgh. From the commencement of the outbreak, Dr Smart has been conducting a series of elaborate investigations concerning the nature and treatment of the epizootic. A fourth Report has just been published on the subject by that gentleman, to which we shall refer in detail in a subsequent number. The treatment advised in the reports, already familiar to our readers, would appear to have given encouraging results. Medical Times and Gazette, November 18.—We must not quit the subject of the Cattle Plague without giving a due meed of praise to an excellent Report by Dr Smart on the Disease as it occurred in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. A portion of Dr Smart's observations have already appeared in this journal, and his Report has been recently published in a separate form, with costly coloured plates and pathological appearances, by the Edinburgh municipal authorities. Same Journal, January 13.— A fourth Report on the Cattle Plague has been recently pre- sented to the Magistrates ; and now Dr Smart gives the profession further cause to thank and congra- tulate him by the publication of a most elaborate table, the results of about one hundred dissections which he has made in his persevering researches on this, the most important question of the day. Such a publi- cation will certainly increase the credit which Dr Smart unquestionably deserves for his important obser- vations on Rinderpest, and these investigations—which we believe are unequalled in extent, and which have placed at his disposal the largest mass of data which we have met with—will add greatly to the value of any opinion to which he has committed himself. In this Report, attention is directed to the dermal eruption which -S at present occupying so much of the attention of those who are interested in the investigation of Rinderpest, and which has suggested some differences in the nosological position of the disease. Dr Smart, we believe, does not consider himself entitled to give any final opinion in the matter. He is inclined to favour the view of a similarity between Rinderpest and Scarlatina; and EDINBURGH: MACLACHLM & STEWART. LONDON: SIIPEIN, MARSHALL, & CO.