126 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



adoj^ted^ j^lan of vaccinating dogs, Lotli calculated 

 to bring disbelief in the success of Mie remedy. 



One of these facts was the extreme nicety and 

 difficulty of a successful operation. 



The other was, as in the case of the small-pox 

 and vaccination, that if the seeds of the distemper 

 Avere occult, but at the same time in the system of 

 the dog to be operated on, the j)i'e-occupation of 

 the j)oison in the one instance prevented or annulled 

 the operation in the other. 



Distemper, if present , how eyev remote it micjht he, 

 held the fortress against all assaults of its enemy, 

 — a fact, in my opinion, perfectly similar to the 

 known antagonism of the virus in the small-pox and 

 the cow-pox. 



This, of course, led to the belief in many servants^ 

 minds, first, that because theij went through the son- 

 Licence of vaccination, u:ithout perfecti}i(j it, the dog 

 subsequently taking the distemper, that fact in 

 their minds proved that vaccination was of no use. 



The second contretemps was, in the face of their 

 attempting vaccination on a dog whose system had 

 been previously taken possession of h/j the distemper^ 

 which had not, but which was yet to appear, and 

 then if they really had succeeded in the mere 



