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the society were recommended, when diseased cattle 

 were submitted, not to order them to be killed, but to 

 place them in a sanatorium for medicinal treatment ; 

 the wholesale destruction of the animals being re- 

 garded as a blot upon the profession. 



NOTE V. 



Indeed, information has reached us of the disease 

 existing in Dumfriesshire, but there is some doubt on 

 this point. So long as we hear of infected, or pro- 

 bably infected, cattle being disseminated in large 

 numbers from the great markets of the country, we 

 must have the propagation of the malady. For the 

 welfare of this country, it is deeply to be regretted 

 that our Government cannot deal with this question 

 as Continental authorities do. I regret to say some 

 of our neighbours laugh at our expense. They see us 

 helpless owing to the wretched state of our laws on 

 the subject, and they are not a little amused at the 

 theories of spontaneous development of the disease 

 which some still advocate. The French Emperor has 

 sent over Professor Boulay, who is still in this 

 country, and who telegraphed on his first arrival, 

 about ten days ago, that the ports of France should 

 be instantly closed to British cattle. This has been 

 done, and we may depend upon it the French people 

 will not suffer as we now must. GAMGEE, Lettre du 

 24 Aout. 



NOTE Y. 



August 16. 



MORE SEIZURES or DISEASED MEAT. Yesterday 

 Mr. Paget, in the course of the proceedings at the 



