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by it. Several others did the same thing without the slightest 

 inconvenience. Daily, at Paris and elsewlicre, animals attacked 

 by the disease are killed at the slaughter-houses, and the sale 

 of the meat is authorized (1844,) as basse viande. 



The writer, notwithstanding, thinks that the sale of such 

 meat sliould be under strict control, as great abuse might other- 

 wise arise. It would certainly be wrong to authorize the sale 

 of meat from a sick animal, but there is no reason to believe 

 that injury would result from using as food the flesh of those 

 which had recovered^ or had been simply exposed. 



Altliough it is not probable that the disease can be communi- 

 cated by the dung, Delafond thinks it prudent to allow it to 

 remain in a secure place sometime before using it. 



The milk has never been known to produce disease. 



PREVENTION. 



The subject of inoculation has been much discussed and 

 appears to be very properly treated in the following extracts : — 



Professor Simonds and Morton of London, were appointed in 

 July, 1852, by the English government to pass over to the Con- 

 tinent and report upon the results of inoculation. During the 

 latter part of September, 1852, they were guests of M. Willems. 



The result of the report of " Dr. C. Ulrich, Veterinarian of 

 the Circle of Urietzen Sur POdcr, Professor at the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Mfcglin," is ratlicr unsatisfactory. lie mentions, how- 

 ever, one case where 101 head were inoculated and cured by 

 Dr. Desaire ; 30 lost the whole or part of their tails ; and he 

 further remarks, " that the loss of the tail has been in the ratio 

 of 3 out of 11 ; 10 out of 22 ; 12 out of 50 ; 13 out of 51 ; 

 and ill one case, even all of 13 inoculated." 



Prof. Simonds gives the following conclusions : — 



1st. That inoculation made by superficial punctures and simple 

 erasions of the skin, invariably fail to produce any local inflammatory 

 action, being the reverse of the case with regard to vaccine disease? 

 small[)0x and other specific affections, of which it is an indication of 

 success. • 



2d. That the employment of fresh, serous, and cleanly made, but 

 small incisions, during the continuance of a low temperature, will also, 

 almost always, fail to })roduee even the slightest amount of intiammat^n- 



3d. The deep punctures are followed by the ordinary phenomena 

 only of such wounds, when containing some slightly irritating agent. 



