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effect. I examined the seat of the inoculation, the ears, in 

 many, and the appearances indicated that the inoculation had 

 taken effect. Many severe cases resulted from the inocula- 

 tion, and some apparently natural cases occurred, and early 

 in October, a very severe outbreak was witnessed in which 

 many of the sheep had a well-developed eruption, and others 

 were seized chiefly in the head, and were suffering to a great 

 extent from partial paralysis of the hind quarters. 



Not only, however, had Herr von Paepke sold sheep since 

 the disease broke out on his farm, but I noticed in a shed a 

 large number of skins. I was told that these were the 145 

 skins of the dead sheep, and that such was the fact their 

 appearance amply betokened. It was considered a great pity 

 to bury the sheep with their skins, and the law had been 

 evaded as it is daily in Mecklenburgh. 



When in Hanover I visited several farms for the purposes 

 of an official inquiry. I ascertained that much disease had 

 been due to the travelling of diseased sheep across the 

 country from east to west, and towards Holland. Dealers 

 had purchased diseased sheep, and no less than 200 were 

 sold from one infected flock at Erstorf early in the summer. 

 They were fat, and it was thought best to sell them before 

 they took the disease. The losses were severe on this 

 farm. 



The chief outbreaks in Hanover first occurred about the 

 months of March and April. 



That small-pox has been very prevalent on the continent 

 during the last two or three years is also proved by an out- 

 break in Belgium. It is rare to observe the disease in that 

 country, more rare than I had been led to understand before 

 visiting it. It is stated that no outbreak had occurred since 

 1823 and 1825 until 1860. Three hundred sheep from 

 Germany, purchased in the latter year by a farmer at Petit 



