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animals must still be slaugliterecl, and if sucli a system weie practic- 

 able with safety, it would of course be a great advantage. 



Lord Peucy thought that Lord Cathcart had spoken of the use 

 of camphor in a manner which was not quite warranted. For hay- 

 fever camphor had been found very beneficial, and it might, perhaps, 

 be useful in some cases to fortify an animal against cattle-disease. 



Lord Cathcakt did not intend to deny the medical value of 

 camphor, but merely to point out that as regarded the treatment 

 of cattle-disease tar and camphor were the same thing. 



Dr. Ckisp said for the last fourteen years he had seriously studied the 

 diseases of the lower animals ; believing that they would never under- 

 stand the diseases of man unless they commenced with the vegetable 

 kingdom and worked uj^wards. It was in the lowest forms of 

 organism that they would best re.id nature. The term rinderpest was 

 a misnomer. The Germans believed that the disease was confined to 

 the ox, but there was, in fact, not a ruminant in existence in which it 

 might not be traced. He knew eight different s^^ecies of ruminants in 

 this country that had been affected, and it had jjrevailed in the 

 Zoological Gardens. It was well known that at an early period it was 

 conveyed by two gazelles which Avent from London to the Jardin 

 d'Acclimatisation at Paris, in consequence of which forty-three 

 different ruminants there were killed, and the disease was thus 

 stamped out. Though Professor Simonds did not like to give the so- 

 called rinderpest a name, thinking that they did not at all know what 

 it really was, he (Dr. Crisp) would call it exanthematous fever — ■ 

 a fever affecting chiefly the lining membrane of the whole of the 

 alimentary canal. There was in some cases an eruj)tion on the skin, 

 l)ut it was one that bore no resemblance to small-pox. Considering 

 that the length of the alimentary canal of an ox was about 150 feet, 

 and that under disease the assimilative process was stopped, he would 

 ask whether it was likely that such things as chalots and onions could 

 have any influence on the progress of the disease. 



He had received hundreds of reports with regard to alleged successful 

 treatment. One gentleman in Scotland having had seventy animals 

 attacked, grew desperate, it appeared, and took to drinking. He then 

 left seven animals for some time in a shippon, where they could get 

 nothing but water, and when he returned he found them recovered. 

 If onions had been given to those animals, or if they had been under 

 homoeopathic treatment, it would have been said, " Here is a wonderful 

 cure." 



Professor Simonds touched very lightly upon dogs. He stated, 

 indeed, that dogs would communicate the disease ; but he said not 

 a word about hunting. He (Dr. Crisp) would ask the Professor 

 whether he did not believe that this disease was conveyed to a great 

 extent by hounds running over different parts of the country. 



Three members of the House of Commons were reported to have 

 said that in their opinion the disease could not affect sheep. He (Dr. 

 Crisp) believed, on the contrary, that thousands of sheep had been 

 killed by it, and he had placed before the Lords of the Council ten or 

 twelve examples. He had just received two letters giving additional 



