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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eep-pox),and the three diseases of swine known in Europe as erysipelas, swine pest,and swine plague. These have been extremely prevalent and fatal in manyparts of Europe. Glanders, swine pest, and swine plague have been broughtto the American continent, and have been even more destructive here than intheir ancient habitat. The diseases which at present are regarded as most serious attracted butlittle attention at the beginning of the century, or were unknown. Tuber-culosis has now become the great scourge of dairy cows and other highlybred cattle, ruining many of the best herds and threatening the health of theconsumers of milk, if not also of beef. Texas fever, a disease of cattle firststudied in the United States, but now known to be widely disseminated overthe South American, African, and Australian continents, has during lateyears retarded operations for improving and increasing the stock of cattle,and has seriously restricted the marketing of animals from the infected dis-tricts.
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THOROUGHBRED. 364 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY This brief summary relative to contagious diseases ami their effects is allthe attention that can be given in this article to conditions which throughall historic times have been important, and, in many cases, have been supremein their influence upon the tendencies and development of the animal popu-lation. As the twentieth century approaches, however, the influence of theanimal plagues is on the wane, and with a few more years of active scientificinvestigations they will all be so thoroughly controlled that the disastrousvisitations of the past can never be repeated, and they will not even be ahindrance or menace to the stock grower. II. INCREASE IX NUMBERS. As might be expected, there has been an increase in the numbers of thedomesticated animals held in the various countries of the world, but thisincrease has been far from uniform, and cannot be measured either by thegrowth of the population or the degree of prosperity. Ev

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