104 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



nine days these unspeakable tortures, with- 

 out being sustained by nourishment for no 

 animal, when his spirits forsake him, can assi- 

 milate his food amidst all this physical suffer- 

 ing and so great a shock to his nervous 

 system. 



Let us here declare that these animals, 

 though removed from their meadows with all 

 the signs and appearances of sound health, at 

 a time when a fine season had been productive 

 of abundance, and when no epizootia was raging 

 in the country which they have left, may 

 nevertheless bear within them the taint of con- 

 tagious typhus ; and let us ask ourselves what 

 must come to pass in those disastrous years 

 when this typhus prevails under the influence 

 of those destructive causes which were passed 

 in review just now, and when the Eussian 

 and Hungarian proprietors, eager to forestall 

 an inevitable general calamity, hasten to send 

 off to Italy, France, Holland, Finland, or to 

 the ports of England, many animals already 

 seized with typhus, and whose virus must have 

 acquired infectious properties still more intense 

 and deadly under the influence of the deep 

 disquiet and commotion which the removal 



