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that, in the actual state of the meat market in 

 London, the people are now in the daily habit 

 of eating the flesh of cattle which are dis- 

 eased. 



IV. 



Physicians of different countries have natu- 

 rally bestowed much time and care in con- 

 sidering and discussing the nature of this 

 epizootia, because they have felt that a satis- 

 factory theory and appreciation of its prin- 

 cipal phenomena, might afford the medical 

 faculty a rational basis for some special treat- 

 ment. 



Layard and the physicians of Geneva have 

 considered this cattle disease to be a malignant 

 fever with an eruptive tendency. 



In the estimation of the faculties of Paris 

 and Montpellier, this cattle disease, considered 

 in its symptoms, was nothing more than a 

 malignant fever essentially contagious, the action 

 of which appeared to tend exclusively towards 

 the skin, and therefore it was rational to pro- 

 voke external eruptions and deposits which, as 

 they matured, diverted from the centre the 

 greatest part of the morbific matter. 



