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difficulty. We know too well that these pre- 

 ventive measures for protecting animals will 

 meet with many obstacles, and only be adopted 

 at last with tardy reluctance, since man him- 

 self continues in some respect indifferent to 

 the causes which spread about the fearful 

 epidemics to which he falls a victim in conse- 

 quence of his neglect. 



In truth, it is well known that the cholera 

 of the present day that much more serious 

 plague had its origin on the banks of the 

 Eed Sea, amidst the infectious miasmata 

 developed near Mecca, where thousands of 

 pilgrims who had died of fatigue and pri- 

 vation, and hundreds of thousands of sheep 

 butchered and religiously offered up in sacri- 

 fice, have, beneath a torrid heat, generated 

 the choleraic miasma, which formerly was 

 supposed to be produced exclusively on the 

 banks of the Ganges. This fact duly ascer- 

 tained and proved, we might suppose that 

 the governments of the different nations 

 among which the cholera is about to extend 

 its ravages, were indignant and had complained 

 at thus being smitten with a scourge, due to 

 the careless ignorance and sordid avidity of 



