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breaking out in their arms and face, be allowed as 
the Signs of a fecond infection. 
The farmers and graziers in Huntingdon fhire, 
Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Kent, and Yorkshire^ 
from whence I have written testimonies, all agreed 
that they never knew of a bead having the conta- 
gious diftemper more than once. In this county 
particularly, Mr. J. Mehew, the farmer mentioned in 
my ESTay, has now among his Stock at Godman- 
cheSter eight -mew, which had the contagious distemper 
the firSt time it appeared in GodmancheSter in 1746. 
It returned in 1749, 1755, and 1756 ; the two laSt 
not fo generally over the town as the two former 
years. All thefe four times Mr. Mehew differed by 
the lofs of his cattle ; yet thofe eight cows , which 
recovered in 1746, remained all the while the dis- 
temper was in the farm the three years it raged, 
were in the midSt of the fick cattle, lay with them 
in the fame barns, eat of the fame fodder, nay of 
fuch as the distempered beads had left and Slabbered 
upon, drank after them, and constantly received their 
breath and Steams, without ever being in the leaSt 
affeded. Is not this a convincing proof? If in ge- 
neral the cattle be fufceptible of a fecond infedion, 
how comes it, that not one of thefe eizht cows were 
affeded ? 
In the years abovementioned the distemper Spared 
no beaSt, but fuch as had recovered from that dif- 
cafe : and this is confirmed to me by Mr. Mehew’s 
father and brother, all the chief farmers of God- 
mancheSter, and is the opinion of all the farmers and 
graziers in Huntingdonshire, who are fo thoroughly 
convinced of there being no fecond infedion, that 
they 
