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Bombay Veterinary College ; Veterinary Capt. 
Haggers, Principal, Ajiuere Veteiinary School- 
Veterinary Capt: Pease, Principal, Veterinary 
College, Lahore ; Veterinary Capt. Eayinonil, 
Superititendent, Civil Medical Department, Bengal: 
and Veterinary Capt. Evans, Superintendent, Civil 
Medical Department, Burma. 
We are specially interested in Veterinary Capt. 
Raymond'.s experiments whicli point to great pos- 
sibilities, and make the following short extracts 
from that officer's report for the benefit of our 
readers : — 
" On the 2oth June a bullock belonging to the 
Chitpore Municipality was admitted at Belgatchia 
suffering from cattle plague and died. 
From this animal tsvo calves were inoculated 
and proved to be immune, and as the outbreik 
was sporadic, my material came to an end. 
But from the bile obtained from the bullock 
I inoculated four calves, four bulls and three 
bullocks. The dose was 10 c. cm. each. 
The result went to prove that the operation 
was perfectly liarmless. The animals had a slight 
swelling at the seat of inoculation, but this showed 
no sign of any kind of disease and fed and 
worked as usual. 
On the 16th of August I received an urgent 
telegram trom Muzaffarpur. Upon my arrival 1 
found Mr. G. R. Toomey of the Xanti Indigo Con- 
cern, who, whilst driving me to his place, told 
me that cattle plague had been raging ou the 
estate since the 3rd August, and that he had 
lost 86 head of cattle. I ascertained that some 
400 or 500 head of cattle had died in the neighbour- 
ing villages. Mr. Toomey had heard that I was 
desirous of experimenting with rinderpest, and 
in the most public-spirited manner e.xpressed 
his willingness to assist me, undeterred by some 
hostile criticisms of the method which it was 
my duty to send him. 
It should therefore be noted that Mr. Toomey 
is the pioneer in India in what may possibly 
become a very important public benefit. 
Having decided upon inoculation, the next 
thing was to procure suitable materials. It was 
obviously out of the question to kill any of the 
cattle owing to the religious opinions of the people. 
On the other hand, observations upon cases that 
had succumbed were often unsuitable in cases 
that had died in the usual way. Unless the bile 
can be removed at once, it is nearly always useless; 
Hence there was an element of uncertainty 
over the work which it was desirable to remove, 
There is fortunately no prejudice against killing 
buffaloes. 1 therefore recommended Mr. Toomey 
to procure some buffaloes. I there obtained a 
typical case of cattle plague wherewith to infect 
the buffaloes, This case (Buffalo A.) showed all 
the bymptoms in a marked degree and soon died. 
Buffalo No. 1, besides receiving materials from 
Bullock A., was also treated with material from a 
young calf that had died without showing all the 
typical symptoms of cattle plague- Four other 
buffaloes (Xos, 2, 3, 4 and 5 ) were also treated with 
material from Bullock A. 
Having prepared the way for further work, I 
returned to Calcutta to my other duties, leaving my 
assistant to report by wire when the temperatures 
of the buffaloes were rising. I returned to Kanti, 
and on the 3rd September Buffalo No, 1 was shot. 
The bile was extracted and placed in ice. On com- 
pletion of tlie post-mortem examination, I e.xamiued 
the bile under the microscope, morecver the colour 
and odour were satisfactory. In the afternoon I 
injected 10 c. cm. of the bile into each of 12 head of 
cattle, which were the.-i branded ^ 1-12. On the 
oth September, Buffaloes Nos. 2 and 3 were shot. 
Bile was extracted from both animals, found to be 
good, and placed in ice. The bile from Buffalo No. 2 
was used the same afternoon to inject 28 head of 
cattle which were branded ^ 1-28. 
On the 6th September I injected 32 head of 
cattle -with bile from Buffalo No. 3, which had 
been kept in ice. This batch was branded 
^ 1—32, 
On the morning nf the 7th September, Buffalo N'o. 
No. 4 was shot. I extracted the bile which was 
good, and placed it in ice. In the afternoon, [ 
injected 21 head of catle, which were branded 
K 1—21. 
Ou the 9th September, Buffalo No. 5 was shot 
From this animal I obtained a quantity of bile 
but on the remaining cattle of the herd 1 only 
inoculated 14, because some were too wild to 
catch and others were cows in calf. This batch 
was branded L K. 1 — 14. 
From the same animal I secured a quantity 
of virulent blood for testing experiments- This 
was placed in ice. Some of the blood and the 
remainder of the bile was also placed in ice and 
taken to Belgatchia. 
I wish heie to mention that Mr. Toomey 
told me that cattle plague had not been 
known on the estate nor in the neighbour- 
hood for at least eight years and probably more. 
Mr. Toomey breeds his own ca^.tle. This points 
to the probability that none of the animals on 
the estate had been lendered immune against 
cattle plague by suffering from a previous attack. 
It was found impracricuble to take the teraper- 
arure of the 108 cattle that had been treated 
with bile, but they were all repeatedly inspected 
by Mr. Tocmey, his assistant, my assistant and 
myself, and 1 was surprised to see how little 
swelling was to be seen ; only in two case.s did 
it interfere with the gait of the aiiimaU. Con- 
stitutionally none of the animals appear to suffer 
in the slightest degree. 
Professor Koch states that the bile injection 
confers immunity not later than the tenth day. 
In order to test the immunity of the animals 
after the bile treatment 6 bullocks were selected 
simply because they were blind or lame. 
(rt) Bullocks K 2 and 10 each received sub- 
cutaneously 20 c. cm. of virulent blood from 
Buffalo No. 5 on the 10th September, that is 
to say, seven days after the bile inoculations. 
(b) Bullock K 15 received subcutaneously 10 c. 
cm. of virulent blood from Buffalo No. 5 on the 
12th September, that is to say, after seven days 
after bile inoculation- 
(c) Bullock K 16 received 20 c. cm. at trie same 
time under tlie same circumstances. 
{d) ^ 1 received 10 c CiU. of virulent blood 
from a case of Belgatchia ou the IQtli Septembefi 
