On the transmission of diseases between man and the lower animals / by W. Lauder Lindsay.

  • Lindsay, W. Lauder (William Lauder), 1829-1880.
Date:
1858
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Credit: On the transmission of diseases between man and the lower animals / by W. Lauder Lindsay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intestinal glands, the lungs being mostly exempt from disease. The same gentleman shows that it is rather the pleuro-pneumonia of cattle which we have to dread in this country—a disease which has repeatedly committed sad ravages among our flocks and herds, and which would appear to be always more or less prevalent in our midst.^ There are now many instances on record of cutaneous eruptions, either identical with, or similar to, those of man, occurring in the lower animals.^ Alibert has found Herpes circinatus in horses.^ Addi- tional illustrations under this proposition are the occurrence of croup, small-pox, measles, and plague, in the pig, as mentioned by Dr Rich- ardson ; of cholera in fowls in the Crimea, by Dr Blenkins; of cholera in cattle, pigs, the horse, dog, cat, racoon, camel, zebra, monkey, &c.: of typhoid fever in hares about Paris; of small-pox in the monkey; of influenza in the lower animals in Jamaica, as mentioned by Dr Milroy; of the gTouse disease; and of the hog distemper in America. Many of these illustrations refer equally to the second proposition. Special exception would appear to be taken to cholera as a disease of the lower animals, by those who maintain that it is essentially human. But if animals are subject to such diseases as typhus and tjrphoid fevers, pleuro-pneumonia, croup, variola and rubeola, what d priori reasoning can there be hostile to the idea, that they may be also subject to cholera? The above diseases have been attended by the same symptoms and the same pathological appearances; have even, in many cases at least, apparently been produced by the same causes as in man; and the evidence on which their occurrence, in a variety of the lower animals, has been established, is abundantly trust- worthy. Prop. 2 is sufl&ciently proved by the published histories of epizootics in this and other countries; by the admirable Report to the Faculty of Medicine of Vienna, on the influence of the epidemic constitution of 1832 on the lower animals—including all tribes thereof—in Austria; and by Dr La Roche's account of the yellow fever of 1853 in New Orleans,—•where also all kinds of animals were affected. ^ Letter in Times on subject of Cattle Murrain, April 3, 1857. 2 Instances will be found in:— Hering's JRepcrtorium dcr I%ier-Heilkundc. Band. 1, 1840. GuRLT and Herttvig's Magazin fur die Oesammtc Thier-Heilkundc Band. 7, 1841. Lettrneur, Rdfle^xions mr VHerpes Tonsurant, 1852. ^ On the Existence of Herjics in Domestic Animals and its Communication to Man. By Dr Von Barensprung. Annakii dfs Charite Krankcnhavsrs. 8. Jahrgang Heft. 1: or quoted in Brit, and For. Mcdico-Chirurg. Review, July 1857. P. 263. * For the information of the student I beg to offer a few bibliographical citations on Epizootics: Cemm of Ireland for 1851, vol. v. p. 358-9. There is here given an anal}^is of Epizootics from 1837, in which all tribes and kinds of animals seem have been affect<'d.—Quoted in Lette-r by Dr Rapcliffe. in Thvts, April 7, 1857.