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physiological structure differs from that of 

 other animals to such an extent as to render 

 them alone liable to originate this fatal typhus. 

 Oh ! if it were true that the bovine race of the 

 steppes alone could engender the typhus ! -we 

 would hail the fact with joy, and would show 

 without much exertion of reasoning that, in 

 that case, we possessed not only the means of 

 preventing the disease by inoculating sound 

 and healthy cattle, but the far more important 

 means of sweeping it for ever from the earth, 

 l>y at once exterminating that cursed race, 

 smitten with the original predisposition of 

 this plague ; and as, after all, the murderous 

 scourge of the typhus of the steppes has 

 already cost, and may perhaps continue to cost 

 the various nations of the Old World millions 

 upon millions, they would feel that their most 

 urgent interest would be to come to an under- 

 standing (nor would the sacrifice be too much 

 for their resources) so as to destroy and ex- 

 tirpate the evil at its original source. There 

 would then be no difficulty in raising up a 

 new breed of cattle in those countries, by 

 transporting to it those of other nations free 

 from the infection. 



