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But as the herds of cattle in those countries 

 are bred for sale, and are sent for that pur- 

 pose to other countries, to France, Italy, 

 England, &c., the animals which have had 

 the germ of the disease transport it with them 

 wherever they go. Thus, it is certain that 

 some oxen conveyed from Eussia and Hungary, 

 where the typhus frequently rages, brought 

 the disease with them into Great Britain in 

 the month of last June ; and as the complaint 

 is communicated from one animal to another, 

 and afterwards at great distances, it spread 

 with great rapidity over England and Scotland. 

 So great are its powers of contagion, that some 

 of the cattle sent back from England have 

 transmitted the disease to Holland, in the 

 first place, and afterwards to Belgium ; and 

 it was feared at one time that all Europe 

 would be invaded by it. 



The first belief was and everything tends 

 to make good the opinion that the typhus 

 originally came from abroad; but many 

 respectable authorities, seeing the foul and 

 nauseous state of the stalls and cowsheds both 

 in London and elsewhere, the overcrowding 

 of the animals, and the general neglect to 



