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especial manner, not only on account of its 

 striking resemblance to the disease which 

 now makes us all so anxious, but because it 

 induced two English physicians, Malcolm 

 Flemming and Peter Layard, to write on this 

 disease two accounts or statements which are 

 equal, if not superior, to all the volumes which 

 have since appeared on the subject of the 

 Cattle Disease. There is no help for it, and 

 our pride must bend itself to the acknowledg- 

 ment : these two men, our seniors by a cen- 

 tury, were men of quite another stamp. Their 

 expositions, enriched with quotations from the 

 Greek and Latin authors, abounding in facts, 

 ingenious insights and inferences, are far supe- 

 rior in merit to the multitude of voluminous 

 works which have been written and published 

 since then. It would be easy to prove that 

 these two sagacious inquirers far better un- 

 derstood than we have done the real nature 

 of this cattle disease, and that we must be 

 grateful to them for first opening the way 

 which all of us must take in order to discover 

 the preventive and curative means of which 

 we are still ignorant. 



Let us observe, in passing, that these two 



