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future ; and here we have two vital distinc- 

 tions. If the man who undertakes this task 

 does not go on, he falls hack ; and it was to 

 avoid incurring this reproach that we have 

 passed our old boundaries and visited new 

 avenues. We are aware that more than one 

 objection might be urged against the opinions 

 and theories which we have exposed, in order 

 to account for the outbreak of typhus in 

 England ; we might anticipate, we might reply 

 to these objections ; but we would rather re- 

 capitulate our inquiry into the causes, in the 

 tangible form of practical propositions. 



From the general considerations above given, 

 we think we may conclude, 



1st. That the causes which generate the 

 cattle typhus on our globe are permanent and 

 unceasing, not only on the banks of the great 

 rivers which empty themselves into the Black 

 Sea, but also in other countries in America, 

 in Africa, &c.; wherever, in a word, exist the 

 conditions, not of race (the race of the animal 

 in this case being but secondary), but of 

 climate and of the organic elements which are 

 indispensable to the formation and development 

 of typhic miasma. 



