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declaring in favour of Dr. Willems, notwithstanding his ob- 
servations and experiments have found free circulation in 
that journal. 
Our own — or those which will be received as our own 
opinions, contained in Professor Simonds’ 6 Second Report,’ 
published last month by us — comes nearest in accordance with 
those of the Belgian Commission. In Professor Simonds’ 
view of the matter, the cc protection” ascribed to inoculation 
is “ more apparent than real,” and “ results mainly from 
simple local irritation.” For which, as well as for other 
reasons, the Professor is “ content to remain among those 
who do not advocate the system.” Pleuro-pneumonia when 
occurring in an inoculated animal, is in no way lessened, 
either in its severity or fatality, by the inoculation of that 
animal with the so-called special virus of this disease. On 
this point there seems to be no diversity of opinion. “ Bel- 
gian, Prussian, Dutch, and English investigators agree 
here” Inoculations, to insure inflammatory action, must 
be made by deep punctures, which even then amounts to 
no more than ordinary irritation, the same as medicinal 
agents would produce, acting no otherwise than as “ a 
simple issue,” upon which its asserted u security” in part 
depends ; and that pleuro-pneumonia occurs in spite of this 
so-called ce successful inoculation,” proving “ equally rapid 
in its progress, and fatal in its consequences, in an ino- 
culated as an uninoculated animal.” 
By the decease of Mr. Bransby Cooper, which is an- 
nounced to have taken place, suddenly, at the Athenaeum 
Club, the veterinary profession have lost a good friend and a 
medical patron. Many a veterinarian’s diploma bears his 
signature ; to most veterinarians he was well known ; to all, 
the revered name of Cooper is everlasting. At this late 
moment, we have only time and space to add, concerning 
this once eminent and estimable, now departed man — 
Requiescat in coelo! 
