110 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



and eight days for the passage by sea, through 

 the tortuous line of the Baltic ; but this 

 was sufficient length of time for the incu- 

 bation to be produced, even supposing the 

 animals to have looked sound when their 

 transit began. 



Moreover, it is indubitable that the markets 

 of this immeasurable London have for many 

 years been supplied with horned cattle from 

 every country, from France, Holland, Belgium, 

 Podolia, Poland, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, 

 and Russia. 



Thus, the Islington Market (the fact is 

 assured) had received horned cattle imported 

 from the countries where typhus is known 

 to be permanent. Were these cattle thus 

 imported affected with the typhus ? This 

 fact likewise is as certain as the other, since 

 two of the foreign cows thus imported, were 

 the first to fall sick, and to die of this 

 typhus. 



But if the contagious typhus of horned 

 cattle rages permanently on the banks of the 

 streams which discharge themselves into the 

 Black Sea, and if the beasts reared in those 

 countries have long been transported to Eng- 



