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success, in which, from the exceptional position in which he 
stood, he found himself in the midst of the destructive plague 
itself, and there had better opportunities than his colleagues 
of experimenting on a large scale. 
In 1852, M. Maris was invited to the stables of the senior 
M. Willems, at Hassell, where he was struck at seeing one ox 
in particular, with the root of his tail enormously swollen, 
among a dozen or so of other oxen who had already lost in 
part or entirely their tails. This appearing a heavy grievance, 
M. Maris expressed his doubts that the tail was happily 
chosen for inoculation ; and added, that he had formerly intro- 
duced counter-irritant medical remedies within the dewlap. 
He suggested to Dr. Willems also, that it was possible that 
the matter employed in inoculation, might have something to 
do with such malignant consequences — that the then trans- 
parent fluid collected from the cellular tissue, or surface of 
the pleura, might be verj' preferable to that extracted out of 
the lungs of the dead beast, as he took it. At this M. Willems 
flew into a rage, and accused “me 55 with a desire to destroy 
his work, by disfiguring his bantling ; though in the end he 
adopted “ my” suggestion. Subsequently, likewise, he pre- 
ferred the dewlap to the tail for inoculation, alleging as a reason, 
that, under risk of accident, and in hot weather, he considered 
it best, and at the time confessing, that the change had arisen 
with M. Maris; although in the very month that he made 
this avowal he addressed a letter to the Central Committee 
for Pleuro-pneumonia, sitting at Brussels, in which he ac- 
cused “ me” of killing different subjects, by resorting to such 
a difference of his (Dr. Willem’s) practice. 
M. Maris finds that the doctor’s displeasure arose out of 
the following causes, viz. — 
6i Istly. Because I had made known, with impartiality, the 
bad as well as the good effects of inoculation. 
“2dly. Because I had shown to Dr. Sauveur, member of 
the Central Commission, during his visit to M. J. J. Van 
Vinckeroze, an ox that had fallen ill of pleuro-pneumonia, 
twenty-eight days after inoculation. 
“3dly. Because I had wished to show to M. Ivart two 
oxen, dangerously ill in consequence of inoculation, which had 
