REVIEWS. 
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Simple Reponse au Dernier Mot stjr Inoculation de la 
Pleuropneumonic Exudative dans l’Espece Bovine, d’apres 
le Piiocede de M. le Dr. Willems. Par T. H. Maris, Medecin 
Yeterinaire du Gouvernement a Hassell, Aout, 1853. Pamphlet, 
pp. 33. 
A Simple Reply to the Last Word on Inoculation for Exudative 
Pleuro-Pneumonia in the Povine Species, according to the pro- 
cedure of Dr. Willems . By T. H. Maris, Veterinary Surgeon 
of the Government at Hassell, August, 1853. 
Fancied discovery, when sanguinely persisted in, and 
followed up at great cost of money, as well as heavy respon- 
sibilities of character and reputation, is apt to be pursued to 
a length which in the end leads to virulence of contest with 
those who may oppose it, to enmity and hatred against them ; 
nay, even to destruction itself to one party, and possibly to 
the other too. By the above pamphlet — for which we are in- 
debted to the thoughtfulness and kindness of Professor 
Simonds, of the Royal Veterinary College — we learn that 
Dr. Willems has been launching forth tone brochure, entitled, 
“ One w T ord more on Inoculation for Pleuro-Pneumonia in 
Cattle,” replete with bad feelings, stirred up in him with the 
desire of turning public opinion in his favour, in a cause 
said to be so far lost as to render further defence of it hope- 
less and vain. 
“ So virulently {sans merci) have I, myself,” says M. Maris, 
“been maligned, as well as the honorable members of the 
Belgian commission, and veterinary surgeons in general, who 
may have entertained any opinion against the inoculation, 
that I am at length resolved to break a silence which up to 
this moment I have preserved. In the enjoyment, in the 
province of Hassell, of sixteen years of practice, with un- 
blemished reputation, I have obtained the appointment of 
Government Veterinary Surgeon, as well as that of Member 
of the local committee instituted at Hassell for the purpose of 
ascertaining the efficaciousness of inoculation, as practised by 
Dr. Willems.” 
In the ardent desire of extinguishing a fever which hitherto 
had resisted being put out by the Veterinarian’s art, M. Maris 
had thrown himself into the inquiry, under faint hopes of 
