516 INOCULATION FOR EPIZOOTIC PERI-PNEUMONIA. 
The assertion of Dr. Willems, that inoculation takes no 
effect on calves, is not borne out by experience, since several 
calves have died after inoculation. 
4. In many cases wherein inoculation had been practised 
on cattle recently purchased, and put in stables formerly in- 
fected but since purified, no fresh case of the disease has 
presented itself for three months after occupation. 
5. No instance has come to our knowledge wherein inocu- 
lated animals placed in purified stables have become infected. 
Nevertheless, a member of the Agricultural Association of 
Dusseldorf, has assured the members at a recent sitting, 
that inoculations made at Rheinberg had been attended with 
the results of propagating peri-pneumonia, which before was 
in that situation unknown. 
6. In some isolated instances, animals not inoculated, 
standing by the side of others in the same stable, which 
were infected, caught the disease ; while others who had been 
inoculated, were preserved from taking it. 
7. Of 204 beasts inoculated by Dr. Desaive, 13 died of 
inoculation, viz., 6 per cent. ; while in Belgium, of 189 
inoculations made by the Central Commission, only 3 died, 
viz., 1 or 1J per cent. 
Of 1400 beasts Dr. Willems pretended to have inoculated, 
12 died, less than 1 per cent. 
Of 1200 inoculations by M. Manis, 22 deaths have fol- 
lowed, nearly 2 per cent. 
In the majority of cases death ensued about the third or 
fourth week, though in some instances not until two months 
after inoculation. 
8. Of the 191 head of cattle inoculated and cured by Dr. 
Desaive, about 30 have lost the whole or part of their tails. 
No calculation has yet been made as to the proportion that 
have suffered in this way in Belgium; nevertheless it has 
been ascertained, in certain numbers of cases, that the loss 
of the tail has been in the ratio of 3 out of 1 1 ; 10 out of 22 ; 
12 out of 50; 13 out of 51 ; and in one case, even all of 13 
inoculated. Complete recovery has been generally tardy and 
difficult with many animals, occupying two months and a 
half, and even three months. 
9. The assertion of Dr. Willems, that the beasts which 
had been inoculated fattened more readily and furnished 
more milk than others who had not undergone inoculation, 
appears to be confirmed by some distillers at Hasselt. 
10. Four calves inoculated by the Belgian Commission 
fell victims to the articular cynovitis of calves, after inocula- 
tion ; and the inoculation of a cow at the school at Brussels, 
