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Mr. Gamgee says, that the reason the disease is 

 still with us is that the stamping 1 out measures have 

 not been string'ent enough. But we read that in 

 Italy, in 1713, the Pope made a law that all diseased 

 animals were to be immediately slaughtered, and 

 that every body who in any way infringed or im- 

 peded the law was to be immediately slaughtered 

 also. Surely that was stringent enough. And. yet 

 the plague was not stayed for a whole year, when 

 no doubt a healthy season came and stopped it. 



What a strange thing it is that after all our so- 

 called progress we should return, as we are now 

 doing, to the barbarities of the ignorant and super- 

 stitious ages. 



Mr. Gamgee says cattle plague is absolutely 

 different from small pox. Dr. Murchison says they 

 are very closely allied. Now, with all my respect 

 for the veterinary profession as a bod}-, I must say 

 I cannot feel so much confidence in the opinion of 

 one of its members, as I do in that of one of the 

 first physicians in England. 



Oh, but (says Mr. Gamgee) vaccination was no 

 use, so the diseases must be different. He might 

 just as well say hung-er in a man is different from 

 hunger in a cow 3 because roast beef cures one and 

 not the other. 



A few months ago Baron Rothschild's cattle were 

 attacked with the Rinderpest. Some of them seemed 

 for a time to be recovering under Mr. Worms' 

 treatment. Oh, but (said Prof. Simonds) it is not 



