288 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



everything was done to propagate and dif- 

 fuse it. 



Now, if we add, that the germs of this 

 typhus penetrate everywhere, that it is suffi- 

 cient to convey sick cattle along the public 

 roads, and by this means to pass near farms 

 and meadows containing healthy cattle, to 

 transmit the contagion, that these noxious 

 germs impregnate your own clothes, the fleece 

 of sheep, and every article, implement, and 

 vehicle used in agriculture, you cannot but see 

 how often, though unwillingly, you must have 

 disseminated the evil far and wide. 



The germs, the miasmata of the disease, 

 insinuate themselves not only upon animals 

 and men, but they shed their virus upon 

 the grass of the fields, the walls of the 

 stalls and stables, and every agricultural 

 utensil. Every tainted animal scatters the 

 pestilential and contagious germs, not only by 

 the air he expires, but by his droppings, and 

 after death by his mortal remains his hide, 

 his horns, his entrails, his flesh all of which 

 disseminate the deadly germs into the atmo- 

 sphere, which afterwards diffuses them in 

 every direction. 



