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rick Townend, and Charles Gamble, who will appear at 
Dartford on Saturday next to answer the charge /’ — The 
Times . 
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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hoe. 
Ueber die Ganzliche Atjsrottung der Rinderpest. 
Von Peter Jessen, Director der Dorpativ Veterinairan- 
astalt. Dorpat, 1852. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 36. 
The Total Extermination of the Cattle Pest. (Typhus.) 
By Peter Jessen, Director of the Veterinary School at 
Dorpat. 
This little pamphlet has for its object the extermination 
of that dreadful calamity of the agriculturist in a part of 
Russia known by the name of Steppes, through the means of 
inoculation for the disease, thereby substituting a mild 
disease for a malignant one. The author informs us, that, 
from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present 
time, according to some calculations, between two and three 
millions, according to others, between four and five millions, 
of cattle have perished in Europe, of not less value than from 
60 to 90 millions of dollars (Prussian) ; this though, he thinks, 
must be much underrated, since, in Denmark alone, from the 
year 1745 to 1852, 2,085,162 head of cattle have perished: 
added to which, who can calculate what loss Russia sustained 
in places w here this plague is of such frequent occurrence in 
that country, that the inhabitants have ceased to regard it 
with aw T e ; indeed, are in a manner familiarised w 7 ith it. 
The first person who recommended inoculation for typhus, 
as a preventive, w 7 as Salchow 7 , professor of chemistry and 
physic, which was in the year 1776. The next w 7 as Dr. G. R. 
Frunk, w 7 ho asserted that he would undertake by that means 
to rid the Prussian frontier of the disease in less than three 
years. His work, on the Typhus of Cattle, appeared in 1802, 
at Berlin ; but, though it received the high approbation of 
