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it comes from, and assure ourselves of the health of that village. 

 For the same reason no cattle should be admitted to fairs or markets, 

 sold or exchanged, without a voucher being given of perfect health, 

 impressed and signed by the authorities, testifying to the health of 

 the animal and that of the p>lace whence it came. For this purpose 

 inspectors are necessary. They should destroy cattle which are 

 brought without attestation and give the flesh to the poor • there 

 are but few cases where less rigorous measures are needed. 



" 8. Notwithstanding all these precautions, the extent of the 

 frontiers, the want of care on the part of neighboring nations, the 

 exhalations from the infected mountains where the disease is rag- 

 ing, the greed of gain, and the desire to purchase at a low price, as 

 well as the other failings of a police so difficult to enforce in human 

 society, are all causes which may aid the contagion in insinuating 

 itself into some village or on some mountain. In this unfortunate 

 case it only rests with us to smother the flame in its first commence- 

 ment, and to prevent its extension. Every person who may have 

 any knowledge of the disease, or even any suspicion of its existence 

 among cattle, should be held liable to a penalty if the nearest magis- 

 trate is not at once informed / also, when a non-suspected beast be- 

 comes diseased or dies, the proprietor or other instructed person 

 should give information, and the proper authorities should then pass 

 on the tidings. Whoever conceals any suspected case should be se- 

 verely punished. Every precaution should then be taken to extin- 

 guish the disease. 



" 9. The first of these precautions is the prompt separation of 

 the diseased beast from healthy ones. So long as it is suspected, it 

 ought neither to be allowed to drink, feed, pasture, nor dwell with 

 the healthy. It should be kept in a separate stable, or in an in- 

 closed paddock, and those who attend it should wear clothes appro- 

 priate to the purpose, never even approaching healthy animals. 

 The trough out of which this animal drinks ouecht not to be used for 

 healthy ones, the dung should not be spread on the ground or earned 

 away, but should be buried in deep pits and well covered with 

 earth, and these places should be surrounded with palings, so that 

 no healthy beast may be able to smell it. 



" "When the infected animal has been killed, or when it has died, 

 it is necessary to aerate the stable for three months at least, and to 

 remove and burn the thatch, and all the wooden movable articles ; 

 to dig up the ground to the depth of a foot, and replace it with 

 other earth, and cover the whole •with lime. The healthy should 

 not go near the forage which the diseased may have been eating, 

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