Written as the cattle plague swept through Europe and Britain in the 1860s, this treatise describes contagious typhus of horned cattle, the disease now known as rinderpest. Bourguignon surveys its history and supposed origins, its symptoms and post-mortem appearances, the risks to those who handled carcasses, and the treatments and controls tried in his day.
A historical document of a great livestock epidemic, the disease that in 2011 became the second ever eradicated. Download the free EPUB.