INOCULATION FOR PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
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Experiment No . 8. — On December 23rd, three Irish steers 
from an infected herd at Blofield, age one year and a half, 
condition fair. Result up to this date — healthy. 
Experiment No. 9. — On December 30th, eight home-breds 
inoculated, of various sex and age, condition fair, from an 
infected herd at Brundall. Result up to Jan. 14th — none 
attacked. 
Register of internal heat on December 30th, at the time of 
operating, and on January 2nd and January 6th, 1870. 
1 No. 
Breed. 
Sex. 
Age. 
Condition. 
Dec. 30. 
Jan. 2. 
Jan. 6. 
! 
Home 
Heifer 
3 to 4 yrs. 
Fresh 
10I°4-5 
101°4-5 
102°2-5 
2 
99 
9 9 
99 
99 
1 102 1-5 
102 1-5 
102 1-5 
3 
99 
„ 
99 
99 
*103 3-5 
103 
103 1-5 
4 
99 
„ 
6 months 
„ 
*103 4-5 
103 4-5 
102 4-5 
5 
99 
Steer 
» 
99 
103 2-5 
102 4-5 
103 2-5 
6 
99 
>> 
99 
103 2-5 
102 4-5 
102 4-5 
7 
„ 
Heifer 
3 to 4 yrs. i 
19 \ 
101 2-5 
102 4-5 
102 1-5 
8 
99 
99 
” I 
99 
102 2-5 
102 2-5 
102 1-5 ; 
Summary. — Inoculated, 87; attacked with pleuro-pneumonia, 
12; died and slaughtered, 9; recovered, wholly or partially, 
3; remaining at present healthy, 75. 
Thus we see that only 12 animals out of the 87 inoculated 
were attacked with pleuro-pneumonia, and these, I con- 
fidently believe, took the disease in a natural way, for these 
reasons, that they were not at all affected locally by the 
operation ; and that inoculation for other contagious diseases 
in animals, such as small-pox in sheep, rinderpest and foot 
and mouth disease in oxen, communicates the specific malady 
to nine tenths or more of those operated upon in a form 
either mild or more or less virulent. 
Having already stated that these experiments were all 
made in infected herds, it is worthy of note that those sub- 
jected to the experiments numbered 6 and 9 had lost several 
animals from pleuro-pneumonia prior to the inoculation — in 
fact, the disease had been amongst them for some weeks ; 
and in No. 6 four animals had died from parasitic disease of lungs 
as well as some from pleuro-pneumonia. 
Now, as allusion has been made to the latter herd, at the 
Central Committee and in the local papers, in which Mr. 
Parmeter's as well as my name has been introduced in 
connection with these experiments, I think it only an act 
of justice to those at whose request 1 acted, to the public 
who — unless an explanation is offered — cannot fail to be 
confused and perhaps alarmed at the statements made, to 
