ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 741 
them are not severe enough, but simply because the people 
who have to put them into operation know nothing about 
their business. How can a policeman, in vdiose hands rests 
all the power, know how to proceed in all cases ? No doubt 
policemen are sensible men enough, but they have not been 
taught to diagnose diseases which they are expected to detect 
and watch. Certainly then it is as great a folly to entrust the 
discovery of disease to them as it would be to leave the dis- 
covery of cholera in the human family to non-medical men. 
What, let us inquire, may be the remedy for the present dis- 
astrous state of things ? Our herds are unhealthy. The 
herds of Ireland are unhealthy, from which we receive the 
main part of our supplies. They are brought over here in 
hundreds, and are driven from field to field, and from market 
to market. Is there no power to stop this? Can the magis- 
trates of the county not have the servants of the Executive 
educated to their work ; and can they not supplement them 
until they are educated with men who know disease when 
they see it? Can they not institute a surveillance which 
would preclude the possibility of cattle coming to market 
from infected places ? I am as averse to a system of espio- 
nage or bondage as any one ; but w r hen matters are desperate, 
we must put up with desperate remedies, and if something is 
not done speedily, a great deal of the summer grass will be 
■wasted, and cattle from the autumn fairs will carry disease 
and loss into almost every corner of the land. Thus, instead 
of having butcher’s meat low next year, it is quite possible it 
may be as high as it is this. Yours, &c., 
George Hedley. 
Westmoreland Terrace , August 19 th. 
Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
STUDY ON TINEA EAYOSA IN THE DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 
By M. F. Saint-Cyr, Professor at the Lyons Veterinary School. 
(In a recent number of the Veterinarian, that for August, 
we mentioned in our Analysis^of Continental Journals, that 
Professor Saint-Cyr, of the Lyons Veterinary School, had 
been awarded a thousand francs by the French Academy of 
Sciences, as an inducement to continue his researches on 
Tinea favosa in the domesticated animals, and we also alluded 
