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have effected its passage into the neighbouring 

 states, and England most probably, would not 

 now have to take up arms against its fatal 

 extension. 



VII. 



We here conclude that part of our labour 

 which includes the history of this disease, and 

 what we have been able to glean from those 

 medical writers, and others, who have given us 

 the results of their experience. It may have 

 appeared somewhat protracted, but it has at 

 least laid open to the student the antecedent 

 investigations of our predecessors, under calami- 

 ties of the same kind, but considerably more 

 fatal than what has yet been witnessed in 

 Western Europe during our time. We have 

 disinterred and brought to light the forgotten 

 works of conscientious and competent men. 

 Like Bruneleschi, the architect, we have sought, 

 not to invent a theory, but to recover a practice ; 

 and thus we have received the observations and 

 precious facts, and finally the preventive treat- 

 ment, of other men and other times, which had 

 coped successfully against the cattle disease 

 when its ravages were infinitely greater. 



