THE CURATIVE TREATMENT OF CANKER. 
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hours were continually tormented by the pest ; and this was 
on account of his choosing to fill his stables with calves 
which had had pleuro-pneumonia and had got well of it. 
c< A second fact I have already had the honour of communi- 
cating to you is, that secondary virus transmits equally well 
the local lesion, and very probably the general preservative 
influence likewise, and that, on the other side, it has a less 
violent reaction on the tissues with which it has been placed 
in contact than the primitive virus has. I also think that the 
method of inoculation will be prescribed, on some future day, 
in this way, — to take secondary virus and inoculate young 
animals. 
“ It would also be a matter of some moment to inoculate, 
from the present time, all bulls serving the purpose of re- 
production. 
66 Accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration. 
“ Louis Willems, 
“ Doctor in Medicine” 
“ Hasselt ; 14 th September , 1852.” 
{Extrait du Moniteur Agricole.) 
*** The editor of the Receuil cle Med. Vet . from which the 
above is taken, remarks, in regard to it, that notwithstanding, 
the facts published in it stand in need of vigour and preci- 
sion ; that the conclusions adduced from them have the 
appearance of being rather hasty and not sufficiently indi- 
cated by their premises; and that, although the memoir 
altogether evinces too much impatience on the part of the 
inventor, who is desirous of forcing with even convictions in 
favour of his doctrine, and does not care to wait until expe- 
rience and time shall have declared for him ; nevertheless, it 
appears to us, our readers will peruse the paper with 
interest, and that this will be augmented, in spite of any 
defect there may be in the argumentation, wdien it is per- 
mitted to us to hope that preventive inoculation will have, in 
point of fact, the happy results M. Willems has in his 
memoir attributed to them. 
ON THE CURATIVE TREATMENT OF CANKER. 
By M. Fischer, Veterinarian at Essengen-lez-Luxembourge. 
“ I propose in this paper to draw the attention of Veteri- 
narians to some therapeutic measures extolled among the 
