284 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



tico weif/Jits and fwo measures ; and that if the 

 inoculation of the typhus kills animals, whilst 

 the inoculation of the small-pox saves men, 

 both maladies being governed by the same 

 laws, it is the inexperience of physicians, and 

 not the operation itself, which must be made 

 to account for it. 



In a word, to sow virus is to reap it ; but 

 there are many ways of sowing it, and one 

 man will reap a rich harvest, whilst another 

 shall gather nothing but tares. Let those 

 unbelievers say what they like, and take my 

 word for it, that we shall one day cure typhus 

 as frequently as we do small-pox, by inocu- 

 lating it, and when it appears in spite of that 

 course, by treating it medicinally. 



This contagious disease is very frequent in 

 certain countries, principally in Eussia and 

 Hungary, on the banks of the great rivers 

 which empty themselves into the Black Sea. 

 In those remote countries, when the seasons 

 are either too rainy or too hot and you know 

 what a summer that of 1865 has been the 

 pastures generate the pestilential poisons of 

 the typhus, the cattle absorb these destructive 

 principles, and die of them. 



