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time Mr. Worms first saw lier, somewhat convalescent. At all events, 

 there was a little abatement of the severity of the symptoms. He 

 could not give this as the result of his own investigation, but he had 

 been told it on pretty good authority. Moreover, he was told last 

 Saturday that the animal so treated by Mr. Worms had afterwards 

 relapsed, though what was the result of that relapse he did not know. 

 With reference to the twenty-four animals that were separated from 

 the rest of Lord Leigh's herd, he was also informed, on the same 

 authority, that up to the time of his receiving the information not 

 one of them had had the disease, that they had been removed from 

 the sphere of its influence to a certain extent, and that the removal 

 had protected them from the disease. 



With regard to the third instance in which Mr. Worms' treatment 

 had been tried, namely that of Baron Eothschild, he was thoroughly 

 well acquainted with all the facts of that case. On hearing that there 

 was a certain number of animals on Baron Rothschild's farm which 

 had been afl'ected by the disease, and had recovered in the course of a 

 very short time by the use of Mr. Worms' remedy, he received instruc- 

 tions to go down at once to investigate the facts. When he arrived 

 at the place, he was not so fortunate tbat day as to see Mi*. Worms or 

 the Baron himself; but having examined every individual animal, all 

 he could say was, that of the ten reported cases of convalescence, he 

 believed not one had ever had the disease ; there was no evidence at 

 all that any of the animals had been subjects of the disease. He went 

 down again last Saturday, and had an interview with Mr. Worms, 

 when he learned that the whole of the animals had been removed out 

 of danger, and placed in sheds for treatment. Ten animals, which he 

 had seen on the previous Wednesday, and reported as not having had 

 the disease, were still perfectly free from it. Eight other animals, 

 which had been picked out from the herd, as being subjects of the 

 disease, he had carefully examined, and found that four of them were 

 perfectly free from rinderpest. These cases were looked upon as con- 

 valescent cases. There was one other case of disease which had been 

 overlooked ; so that there were five animals altogether which 

 had undoubtedly been subjects of the plague. One was taken ill on 

 Friday, and at that time it was not a very severe case, and one other 

 Avhich had been taken in from the general herd w^as then suffering 

 from it. On the Saturday night there were altogether five animals 

 unquestionably afiected with the disease. Mr. Worms was at the 

 mansion ; he had been there a day or two, and returned to London on 

 Satmxlay. On Monday, he (Professor Simonds) went down with his 

 colleague, and they reported that the animal which had been taken ill 

 on Friday was dead, and that the other was dying ; further, that four 

 only of the animals which had been pointed out as cured of the disease 

 had absolutely contracted the disease. Thus it appeared in these 

 cases there was gi*eat reason to doubt whether the cattle-plague was 

 met by this particular remedy ; in fact, he was afraid we should find 

 in the course of time that there was no larger number of animals 

 saved by that remedy than by any other means which had hitherto- 

 been tried. 



