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perishing every hour within their stalls and 

 sheds, were no longer a real source of embar- 

 rassment and ruin. They would not have 

 been obliged to drive them to market to get 

 what they could out of them and disencumber 

 themselves. The most active cause of the 

 contagion would by this means have been 

 prevented. 



This allowance having been made for the 

 most pressing dangers, attention should next 

 have been directed to a matter no less im- 

 portant we mean the treatment and cure of 

 this distemper ; for we will never admit that 

 England can have fallen back a century, and 

 that whilst those enlightened men Malcolm 

 Flemming and Layard proposed and tried 

 to cure and prevent ox-typhus in 1757, we, in 

 1865, shall have been reduced to the horrible 

 alternative, the repugnant barbarity, of the 

 general and indiscriminate extermination of 

 the tainted cattle. 



"Whilst, therefore, the treatment of the 

 typhus would have been studied on the spot, 

 and the most urgent measures would have 

 been taken to withstand the propagation of 

 the evil, they would have established, a few 



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