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The prepared vaccine of tuberculosis, or as it is 

 termed, ** Tuberculin," when inoculated into the body 

 of a sound ox produces no sudden and marked rise of 

 temperature, but it does so act on the animal affected 

 with tuberculosis, and in this way the veterinarian 

 can with almost absolute certainty separate the affected 

 from the non-affected, but we repeat the vaccine of 

 contagious pleuro-pneumonia reacts on both alike, and 

 while iX. protects the sound anwial from an attack of the 

 disease, it in no way protects the affected animal, 

 or assists in its recognition or detection, and con- 

 sequently it (Inoculation) has failed to stamp out the 

 disease in any and all countries where it has been 

 employed for that purpose. 



If the vaccine of contagious pleuro-pneumonia had 

 been a detective as well as a protective agent, then the 

 stamping out of the disease by the cruel and brutal 

 method of slaughter of affected herds, would never 

 have been advocated by the members of the veterinary 

 profession, nor adopted by the Government of the 

 country. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms of inflammation of the 

 stomach are not well marked ; loathing of food is the 

 most prominent, together with foul breath, with a 

 tightness of the hide about the shoulders. 



Causes. — This is brought on by some acrid sub- 

 stance taken into the stomach while feeding, or from 

 the animal feeding too greedily when removed from a 

 poor to a rich pasture ; it sometimes proceeds from 

 debility of the system, and the food in consequence 

 remaining in the paunch until it has undergone a 

 certain degree of fermentation, which produces heat, 



