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He also says that when well-managed cattle (are 

 any well managed ?) that when well-managed cattle 

 get the disease, it only means that when one man's 

 house is on fire, the next one is not safe. About 

 the Revel story, he says it has not a leg to stand on. 



In the preceding pages I have endeavoured to 

 express my opinion about the doctrines of Mr. 

 Gamgee and his fraternity, clearly and decidedly. 

 But when I consider, that by their ignorant treat- 

 ment,* and blood-thirsty counsels, they have caused 

 a loss to the community of a very great man} r 

 thousand pounds, I do not think I have spoken too 

 strongly. 



About Mr. Gamgee himself, I can fancy that 

 some who may read what I have written, will 

 think I entertain little respect for him. But they 

 would think wrong. I feel much respect for him. 

 It is only his logical faculty! I do not think much 



* The most fatal part of this treatment is the depriving 

 diseased animals of light and cold fresh air. If a diseased 

 beast is shut up in a dark place in a temperature above 40, 

 no power on earth can save it, unless the case has originally 

 been a very mild one. Then they sometimes scramble through. 

 The drugging, if tolerably mild, probably does little harm and 

 no good. 



t At the end of Mr. Gamgee's book, he endeavours to 

 show that Einderpest is probably caused by minute animal- 

 culae (entozoa) in the blood, because they can be discovered 

 by a microscope after the animal is dead. This I call as 

 good an illustration of "the cart before the horse" as one 

 often meets with. The presence of animalculse no doubt 

 always accompanies death and decomposition, and even disease, 

 which is often only partial death and decomposition. 



