Volume 1

A manual of veterinary sanitary science and police : embracing the nature, causes, symptoms, etc., and the prevention, suppression, therapeutic treatment, and relations to the public health of the epizootic and contagious diseases of the domesticated animals ... and an appendix containing the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act and regulations / by George Fleming.

Date:
1875
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Credit: A manual of veterinary sanitary science and police : embracing the nature, causes, symptoms, etc., and the prevention, suppression, therapeutic treatment, and relations to the public health of the epizootic and contagious diseases of the domesticated animals ... and an appendix containing the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act and regulations / by George Fleming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    xx: of owners, statesmen, sanitarians, and the public ; the absence of anything like an organization to regulate and control this movement, carry out sanitary regulations, and investigate and check contagious diseases ;—all these have operated in pro- ducing the extension and prevalence of serious maladies. Thus it is that some contagions have become disseminated in every part of the globe within a few years—contagious Pleuro-pneumonia, for example : a malady now as great an infliction in Australia, New Zealand, America, and South and Central Africa, as it is in this country and on the Continent of Europe. It is almost the same with Foot-and-mouth, and other diseases ; and in their dissemination, Britain must be credited with a very large share of blame: as through her laxity these maladies have not only become almost natu- ralized at home, but they have been allowed to spread to her colonies and other parts of the world, through unpardonable neglect of the simplest sanitary precautions. These diseases are, for the above reasons, more or less rapidly and continuously spreading : occasioning each year the most serious losses, which go on increasing with their exten- sion, and the higher value animals are everywhere attaining. Hygiene is as impotent to prevent the encroachments of the most serious of these scourges, as therapeutic devices are to cure them. Therefore, only the employment of sanitary measures, founded on a careful study of them, can preserve communities from their destructive effects ; and while it is the object of the producers of these animals to multiply and bring them to as great a state of perfection as possible, it is no less the duty of Veterinary Sanitary Science to aid in this perfecting, and to indicate in what way they may be best and most economically maintained in health and protected from the ravages of disease. Legislators, medical authorities, and the general public should render every assistance in this direc- tion, as the subject is really of the highest national importance. Veterinary Sanitary Science should also take cognizance of other matters, more or less related to the domesticated ani- mals, and the health of the human species. Among these should be included the inspection of animals destined for