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destroys, holocausts of sacrifices to his quackery. It would 

 be otherwise with the instructed and intelligent expert. 



Veterinary science is now invoking to its aid the most emi- 

 nent pathologists and therapeutists of the age, in order to 

 secure the mastery of this disease. And this should not only 

 be a cause of gratulation to all agriculturists of whatever 

 nation or clime, and a source of hope for the future ; but it 

 should inspire all further investigation, and the handling of 

 every case, wherever and whenever it may occur, with the 

 same feeling. We do not hesitate then to say, terrible as 

 the pictures of such desolations as have been wrought in 

 Great Britain may be, that the treatment of this pestilence 

 in any new country it may visit, should, from its first onset, 

 be courageous and hopeful. The arm of science thus nerved 

 strikes alwa\ s for victory. And with the facts fresh in our 

 recollection that the Eczema which broke out in England in 

 1839, and the typhoid or exudative pneumonia which followed 

 in 1841, have lost all their terrors, and can only be found in 

 a few sporadic cases in enzootic form ; we rejoice that the 

 Edinburgh Committee, through Dr. Wood, their chairman, 

 have proclaimed their faith that this epizootic is to become 

 milder in its type, and that its fatal ravages will be notably 

 diminished. 



Should this disease ever hold an extended reign in this 

 country, not the knife but scientific* treatment will check and 

 overturn its empire. If the farming population, and those to 

 whom cattle are a necessity, not only for milk, but for the 

 purposes of labor and breeding, can be duly advised of the 

 latter method, they will not be compelled to resort too un- 

 frequently to the former. But it is not meant by this that 

 science is indiflferent to those wise measures of precaution 

 embodied in salutary enactments by the legislative authority. 

 Isolation and quarantine are an essential part of scientific 

 treatment, and unless these can be secured, and, with other 

 approved remedial agencies, applied skillfully and oppor- 

 tunely as to time ; destruction and instant burial with the 

 use of disinfectants are the only alternatives left to incaution 

 and ignorance. 



