This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... ZYMOTIC PLEUROPNEUMONIA. Abbbeviations--viz., Zy. p. p., indicating Zymotic Pleuro-Pneumonia; P. p., Sporadic Pleuro-Pneumonia; and P. h., Purpura Hemorrhagica--will be used for the sake of brevity. Synonyms.--Technically, we have Pleuro-Pneumonia Epizootica; P. p. Contagiosa; Exudative p. p. Provincially: Lung Disease, or Lung 111; Distemper; Pleura; Jig; Tick; Goat; Gasper. Of the technical synonyms of this disease, I prefer that of P. p. epizootica; or, as I shall hereafter speak of it, P. p. zymotica. Of the provincial synonyms, lung disease is most frequently used, and it certainly is the most expressive. Distemper is applied also to the disease in many parts of the Midland Counties. The other terms are simply of a slang nature, and are used by common butchers. Goat is nearly always employed to designate the disease in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh; and those who are engaged in the traffic of the diseased flesh are known as " goat hunters," or "blockade runners "--the latter term signifying that they have to run the gauntlet of inspection; "goat" is further distinguished as wet and dry--the former implying that there is a large amount of effusion into the chest and the tissues; the latter, that there is an absence of effusion. "Gasper" is applied to those cases in which gasping for breath is a prominent symptom. Definition.--It is an insidious, exudative zymotic disease, due to a specific poison or ferment, pecufiar to the ox, and having its local manifestations concentrated in the lungs and pleura. Characters.--P. p. zy. is indigenous in the ox alone; so far as I am aware, it is never developed in any other animal; neither, in my experience, is it transmissible to any other animal. Some authorities have asserted that they have...