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miles from London and on the northern side, 

 in the direction of the great cattle market, 

 a number of hospitals or sanitariums, and, as 

 far as possible, within a park. These hos- 

 pitals, constructed of wood, containing, besides 

 stables and sheds, a slaughter-house, a dwell- 

 ing-house for the staff of employes, a labora- 

 tory stocked with all the physical and che- 

 mical instruments required, &c., would in two 

 or three weeks have been sufficiently prepared 

 to receive a certain number of cattle. 



Provided with these advantages and oppor- 

 tunities, a permanent stage of operation would 

 have been raised on which trials and experi- 

 ments might have been made with every 

 chance of fruitful results. In these sani- 

 tariums, for instance, the most practical phy- 

 sicians and veterinarians might have entered 

 upon a systematic course of treatment, dividing 

 the bovine patients into classes, according to 

 their periods of disease, their age, &c. ; and 

 trying some particular mode of treatment, 

 some remedy considered as effectual, alter- 

 nately, upon each of these classes of tainted 

 cattle. These experiments, having been made 

 under circumstances so favourable, would have 



