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diseases that have always heen apt to follow over- 

 crowding-, under-feeding-, foul air, and unnatural 

 modes of living". 



Then comes the assertion, that the whole course 

 of the disease is seven days, which I am sorry to 

 say is nonsense. In one case it is two days, in 

 another three, in another ten, and in fact there is no 

 rule whatever. All depends on the degree of ma- 

 lignity. One case I knew where a beast had it one 

 day and was quite well the third. All the others in 

 the same )-ard had it and were shot. The one I 

 speak of shivered like the others for twenty-four 

 hours, but was well before they had time to fetch 

 the executioner. The fact is, there are all degrees, 

 from a slight shivering 1 cold to most malignant 

 plague. 



Then comes the great discovery, first announced 

 as we are told by Professor Gamgee, that when the 

 complaint is coming- on the temperature of the body 

 rises two or three degrees. Of course it does, as in 

 every other case and kind of violent fever under the 

 sun. Fever means internal inflammation, and in- 

 ternal inflammation means abnormal internal heat. 



Aberdeenshire, they say proves the efficacy of 

 stamping out, because the number of cases in that 

 county have been only 0'27 per cent. But there 

 are other counties where the number of cases have 

 been as few without stamping out ; nothing is said 

 about them. These people evidently think that one 

 swallow does make a summer. There is no doubt 



