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as to bring on the diftemper in a regular and mild 
manner, as appears by the cows with calf not flip- 
ping their calves. One may fairly conclude, that in 
this contagious diftemper, like unto the fmall-pox, 
the practice of inoculation is not only warrantable, 
but much to be recommended. 
But how comes it then, that neither by applica- 
tion, digeftion, nor inoculation, the diftemper was 
not communicated in France ? 
The Marquis fays, that this diftemper is not com- 
municated but from one beaft to another immedi- 
ately. I muft beg leave to fay, that to my know- 
lege the diftemper in February 1756 was carried 
from the farm-yard, where I viftted fome diftem- 
pered cattle, to two other farm- yards, each at a con- 
fiderable diftance, without any communication of 
the cattle with each other, and merely by the means 
of fervants going to and fro, or of dogs. 
The experiments made on four beafts, by tying 
over their heads part of diftempered hides, or pieces 
of linen and woollen cloth or ftlk, which had re- 
ceived the breath and fteams of dying cattle, ferve 
to fhew, by the bullock’s forcing off the cloth tied 
about him, that the putrid ftench was difagreeable 
to him ; but that neither his blood, nor that of the 
other three beafts, was then in a ftate to receive the 
infection. 
With regard to the puftules, which the Marquis 
relates were mixed with oats and bran, or diffolved 
in white wine ; the diftempered bile, which was 
mixed with milk; milk taken from difeafed cows ; 
water, in which part of a diftempered hide had been 
fteeped ; and the precaution taken to force thefe 
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