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horses and cattle and 528 human beings. The ordinary remedy 

 has been to bury the victims deep in the earth, but Oemler 

 has reduced the loss of his sheep from 21 per cent, per annum 

 to 2 per cent, by forbidding the burial of the victims in fields 

 and meadows. 



Koch thinks that the best way to rid ourselves of this " de- 

 stroying angel" is to utterly destroy all substances which con- 

 tain Bacilli, but fears that it is impossible to adopt so radical 

 a measure; he thinks that much might be done by placing all 

 affected bodies in a dry pit to which air could not enter, and 

 at so great a depth as to have a temperature always lower than 

 15° C. 



Prophylactic measures are to be especially directed against 

 sheep, as it is in them only that the disease is continuous ; in 

 the other cattle it appears only at intervals. 



The concluding section of the paper draws attention to the 

 similarity in conditions between this splenic fever and cholera 

 and typhus, and expresses the hope that these two diseases may, 

 with the advance of knowledge, be brought more fully under 

 man's control. — F. Jeffrey Bell, Magdalen College, Oxford. 



