✨ Memorandum on Pleuro-Pneumonia
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XV. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1867. No. 24.
Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, July 1st, 1867.
THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following memorandum on Pleuro-Pneumonia, for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
MEMORANDUM ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.
BY DR. CUSACK.
In offering any opinion on pleuro-pneumonia, I shall have in view, and contrast it with, the human diseases of which it appears to be the bovine equivalent, both because I am more competent to deal with it from that aspect, and also because I observe that a similar method was adopted by most of those who reported to the Privy Council on the late cattle plague in Great Britain.
Pleuro-pneumonia in man is an inflammation of the lung (pneumon) and its investing membrane (pleura), and occurs—
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As an uncomplicated acute inflammation, caused by exposure to cold, or some such non-specific agent.
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As an incident of certain specific diseases, such as typhus and enteric fevers, of which it is to a greater or less degree a usual complication.
The former is a sporadic disease of comparative rarity, the latter (typhus and enteric) are very common, and at times assume the dimensions of a wide-spreading contagious epidemic, but it is not always possible to discriminate between them, except by the previous history of exposure or non-exposure to the poison of typhus, &c.
- If signs of pneumonia be discovered, the typhoid symptoms may be ascribed to the local lesion, unless the patient has been exposed to the poison of typhus, and then the diagnosis must be doubtful. Ch. Murchison, M.D., Treatise on Continued Fevers of Great Britain, 1862, p. 215.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1867, No 24
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🌾 Publication of a memorandum on Pleuro-Pneumonia in cattle
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources1 July 1867
Pleuro-Pneumonia, Cattle disease, Veterinary, Memorandum, Nelson
- Cusack (Doctor), Author of memorandum on Pleuro-Pneumonia
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary