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transmissible between men and animals, and able 

 to keep its vitality outside its host ; so that men 

 who are employed with cattle, or have the habit 

 of chewing straws or ears of corn, incur some slight 

 risk of infection. Before 1877, the disease was 

 hardly suspected in man, and was not understood 

 in cattle. 



