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An anxiety having been manifested to ascertain the cause of the death, the author made an examination of the animal, which, upon dissection, proved the disease to be a genuine case of the so-called pleuro-pneumonia.
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Pleuro-pneumonia proper is neither a contagious, nor an infectious disease; hence, the denial of medical men that this so-called pleuro-pneumonia is a contagious, or infectious disease, has been the means of unnecessarily exposing many animals to its poisonous influence.
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"The world do move," nevertheless, and pleuro-pneumonia does prevail in this country to such an extent as to furnish a reasonable excuse for unfriendly legislation abroad, and we gain nothing by denying the fact, the Allerton and Singleton assertions to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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Now the fact is that already we share a great many diseases with the lower animals, a few of them being tuberculosis, anthrax, rabies, tetanus, cancer, pleuro-pneumonia, certain insect-borne diseases, some parasitic worm diseases and some skin diseases like favus.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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Mr. Hunt, of New Jersey, said if Congress would appropriate an adequate amount payable to the order of the authorities of the different States and protect New Jersey for six months from the importation of diseased cattle, the State in that time would stamp out pleuro-pneumonia in its territory.
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But the toothsome time for beef-eaters was undoubtedly in the days of pleuro-pneumonia.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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Thus in Switzerland, in Africa, in Senegambia, it has been the custom for a long time, in order to protect the cattle from pleuro-pneumonia, to inoculate them with the fluid from the lung of an animal recently dead of pleuro-pneumonia.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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We have since then learned that man shares many diseases with the lower animals, tuberculosis, plague, rabies, diphtheria and pleuro-pneumonia, to mention only a few.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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Some among us who claim to hold unreduced or softened the old ancestral faith have been twice in late years convened in our State-House, by especial call, to legislate upon the potato-disease and the pleuro-pneumonia among our herds.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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One was tempted to pray that such pleuro might last for the season, save that the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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