ANTHRAX, CHICKEN-CHOLERA, ROUGET 69 



Mr. Livingstone-Learmouth, of Guildford. " As 

 manager of a very large estancia in the Argentine, 

 I had to superintend the vaccination of some 

 200,000 injections of vaccine against anthrax. I 

 had seen thousands of cattle and sheep die of this 

 plague. Thanks to Pasteur and research we saved 

 the lives of the rest. ... I spent about 20 years 

 there. There were areas, almost ' zones,' where the 

 land was so impregnated with anthrax, that cattle- 

 breeding ceased, until inoculation by the Pasteur 

 treatment enabled men to resume cattle-breeding." 

 He goes on to speak of the value of the serum- 

 treatment, in cases of infection of man. "The 

 gauchos could not be brought to understand the 

 danger of infection, and would insist on skinning 

 animals which had died of this disease, always with 

 the idea of using the hide for their private use. 

 When the Pasteur Institute gave us the antitoxin, 

 we were able to save many lives. ... I went out 

 to South Africa, in 1909, and selected the cattle 



estates for , some 1,250,000 acres. Had 



Pasteur not initiated his protective system, I would 

 not have taken up one acre. But I found in 

 Rhodesia a well-established laboratory, which 

 owes its existence to scientific research, and with- 

 out hesitation I took up that land which had 

 been devastated by disease, and was then practi- 

 cally unoccupied by men or cattle. Thanks to 



