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produce cow-pox in cattle by inoculating them, on the one hand, 

 with vaccine Ivmph, and on the other, with the matter of human 

 variola ; and afterwards to prove whether thej be prooi against 

 the prevalent plague, or if the course of the disease be thereby 

 modified." Tlaus advised, graziers and breeders besought the 

 veterinary surgeons and the country doctors to " do their beasts ; ' 

 and these practitioners inundated the vaccine establishments with 

 applications for Ivmph, which, never sufficient for the human 

 subject, failed utterly to equal the sudden demand. By hook or 

 by crook, thousands of cattle were A'accinated — much lymph 

 being used that never, under any circumstances, would elicit a 

 responsive pustule — and the result, unhappily, is Avhat Dr. MuE- 

 CHISOX, in the following letter to ' The Times ' on the 30th of 

 January, candidly avows it to have been : — 



" Sir, — The points of resemblance between cattle-plague and 

 small-pox are so striking that certain observers were led to hope 

 that vaccination might protect cattle from the prevailing disease. 

 The experiment, I believe, has now been fully and fairly tried, 

 and, although the first accounts appear favourable, there is suffi- 

 cient evidence that vaccination confers no permanent protection 

 from the plague. It is well that this fact should be generally 

 known by publication in ' The Times.' Rigid isolation and 

 the suspension of all movement of living cattle must still be the 

 preventive measures on which we mainly rely. I may further 

 state that neither JNIr. Ceely nor I ever maintained that cattle- 

 plague and human small-pox were identical. We merelv pointed 

 out that the analogy between the two diseases was sufficiently 

 close to call for the experimental inquiry referred to. 

 " Yours, &c., 



" Chaeles Muechisox, i\r.D." 



In Cheshire, vaccination, under the spirited leadership of 

 !\Ir. Tollemache, was tried in 27,000 cases. I could wish there 

 was space to detail some cases ; but the general conclusion that 

 the temporary immunity does not survive the immediate action 

 of the vaccinal virus is all that can be admitted. 



Othee PeevejnTIVE and Remedial Expedients. — Disin- 

 fectants. — Contiguous pages contain so much admirable matter 

 from Dr. Yoelckee and Professor SiMONDS on this subject, that 

 the reader is respectfully referred to them and enjoined to read 

 carefully what is written concerning the burial of cattle and the 

 disinfection of manure. 



In consequence of the culpable neglect of such expedients for . 

 the prevention of the cattle-plague as an embargo upon the im- 

 portation offoreif/TL live stock into the country, quarantine, inspection 

 of frontiers, ports, markets, <S:c., the nation is unhappily com- 



