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sixteen or seventeen more purchased subsequently, were all 

 destroyed by Einderpest), sickened and died, as was supposed 

 by the owner from poison. Two cows which on the 19th of 

 June* were purchased in the Metropolitan market by a Mr. 

 Baldwin, of Hackney, died of the same disease, one on the 

 29th of June, and within twenty-four hours after she was 

 observed to be ailing ; and the other on the 5th day of July. 

 These three cases were attended by Mr. Priestman, a vete- 

 rinary surgeon, who with a son of Mrs. Mchols brought 

 the stomach and intestines of a cow of the latter to Prof. 

 Simonds at the college, on the 4th of July, for examination. 

 The Professor was also requested to inspect the herd and the 

 premises, which he did with great care ; had another animal 

 killed, and took its stomach and appendages and some water 

 from a well recently opened, to the college for examination. 

 On the 9th day of July he was fully satisfied that these ani- 

 mals and others reported at that date had died of the same 

 disease which he had observed in Galicia in 1857. 



Twenty-one of the Defries cattle died shortly after their 

 arrival at Schiedam, it having been observed before their 

 departure that they were out of health. Moreover the plague 

 was communicated to the stock of a Mr. Vandervelden, 

 grazing in a pasture adjoiningt that In which the Defries 

 cattle had been placed ; and the owner of the stock contam- 

 inated in this wise had, in utter ignorance thereof, sold 

 upwards of twenty, which were exported to Norfolk. 



To return to Mr. Baldwin's stock. In twelve days after 

 his first. loss his herd of twenty animals was reduced to. ten, 

 his saving up to that time of fifty per cent being attributable 

 to the immediate slaughter of each animal on showing the 

 first symptoms of the pest. 



In a brief review of these statements (as it is impossible 

 in this sketch, to give all the particulars which go to confirm 



* Prof. Gamgee states that the running from the eyes and nose, and the drooping and other 

 primary symptoms, were observed in the market as early as the 14th of June, and gives the 

 history of two Dutch cows bought there on the 19th, which went to Lambeth Walk, and com- 

 municated the disease in that neighborhood, one of them sickening shortly after the purchase 

 (Ist Rep., p. 103.) 



t Prof. Gerlach states that this pasture was full one thousand paces from that in which the 

 Defries cattle were placed. 



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