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and all without natural air and exercise; that amongst 

 men such modes of life have always ended in de- 

 structive typhus diseases ; that malignant goal fevers 

 resulted formerly from the horrible state of prisons ; 

 but that filthy as they were, they cannot possibly 

 have been so filthy as the average cow-shed of the 

 country ; that being so kept, it was little wonder 

 that in most years pleuro-pneumonia and other forms 

 of internal inflammation should be so fatal as they 

 are, or that once or so in a hundred years when an 

 extraordinarily unhealthy season occurs typhus in 

 its most malignant and contagious forms should 

 break out. I showed that cattle doctors of the pre- 

 sent day are in knowledge where man doctors were 

 a hundred years ago; that their treatment of sick 

 cattle does not give them a chance ; and that if in 

 a bad case of low fever, such as Rinderpest, a beast 

 be shut up in the dark in a temperature above 40, it 

 requires a miracle to save it ; and yet that this is the 

 universal mode of treatment by the whole profes- 

 sion; and I showed how, in the very few cases where 

 nature and open field treatment had by some acci- 

 dent been resorted to, far the majority had reco- 

 vered. Furthermore, I mentioned my conviction, 

 that an animal that has been perfectly managed, that 

 is to say, an animal that is in the highest possible 

 state of health and vitality cannot take any disease 

 whatever whilst in the open air, and therefore that 

 the simple and certain way to prevent these diseases 

 in future, is good management ; that is to say, the 



