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same or a similar malady, and even the cervine tribe was 
decimated by it. For instance, in Lapland, in the latter 
half of the eighteenth century, the reindeer perished in 
great numbers with the same symptoms as were exhibited 
by the cattle in Sweden and Norway, w’hich cattle the 
historian who has left us an account of the outbreak was 
certain were instrumental in bringing the disease among the 
deer. Many of these occurrences have been altogether over- 
looked by comparative pathologists ; even so late as 1815, 
when the plague was carried into France and as far as Paris 
by the allied armies, the transmission of the contagion to the 
caprine species was recorded by a French veterinary pro- 
fessor, and yet we find no allusion to this in the latest 
treatises on the scourge. 
We confess ourselves greatly indebted to M. Dele for his 
excellent and particularly exact history of the epizooty in 
England in 1865-67, and we have much reason to fear that 
this is likely to be the only complete and concise record of 
the ever-to-be-remembered invasion with which the future 
historian of animal plagues will be furnished. M. Dele, 
whose acquaintance with the English language had enabled 
him to follow the course of the pest as it was recorded in the 
ephemeral literature of the day, originally published this 
history in the Brussels Veterinary Journal , and as each in- 
stalment appeared we had reason to be satisfied with the 
general correctness of his statements, and were frequently 
more than pleased with the manner in which he contrived 
to bring out of the apparently chaotic mass of reports and 
rumours with which the daily papers were crowded the most 
salient and important points in its progress. And we cannot 
overlook the sentiments of sympathy he has so generously 
expressed for his English colleagues during this eventful 
crisis, when they were exposed to a storm of vituperation 
and slander such as perhaps no body of professional men was 
ever subjected to, merely because they resolutely clung to 
the opinion that there was but one method of combating 
the pestilence, and that attempts to cure the stricken creatures 
meant the inevitable destruction of our splendid herds and 
the ruin of our agriculture. We sincerely thank M. Dele 
for the justice he has done us in his in every way commend- 
able history, which we need only say is well worthy of perusal, 
even by those who closely followed the course of events 
during the period named. 
