TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OF ANIMALS IN INDIA. 137 
during the present peace, and in all countries have been 
affected with epizootic diseases. I observed the same results 
in India, in the province of Dekli, after twenty years’ peace. 
Animals accumulated, and herds of cattle, camels, and sheep 
were diminished by epizootic diseases, but which diseases 
were always more or less prevalent with young animals, at 
particular seasons, older and seasoned ones not being affected ; 
and where there were different breeds, it appeared in one 
herd and not another. Among buffaloes, in which varieties 
are not frequent, as in other animals, I did not see or hear of 
epizootic disease. The primary affection is the fever of do- 
mestication; and it is this fever, when it is specific, that seasons 
an animal, and not the local affection, which may be various. 
Mr. W. Percivall’s ‘ Introductory Observations’ begin with 
this fever; next comes the various forms of diseases, and the 
precautions to render the attack comparatively mild ; even 
the Colonel’s remark, at page 4, shows he knew about sea- 
soning. How could milkers and feeders of cattle think they 
could do as they do, just the contrary with cattle, and be free 
from disease. I never knew or heard of camels, or cattle 
sent from the Slissur breeding herds, being affected with 
epizootic disease after having joined the army, as these ani- 
mals had had specific fever while young in the herd, and 
were seasoned ; how very different it is in Europe, cattle are 
bred in general by small proprietors, and being in small 
numbers of two or three, do not have this fever of domestica- 
tion. All at once, round comes the purchasers, and collects 
these animals into a drove, and they are sold and distributed 
all over the country ; no precautions are taken, but they are 
forced by high keep, perhaps are stalled in close unclean 
places ; disease appears, and it is then said to be contagious. 
I do not deny the possibility, but is it not necessary to the 
production of the diseases with which they are affected. 
Having a specific disease, although it seasons animals for a 
time, it does not prevent them having other forms of disease: 
we daily have practical proofs of this. Vaccine disease, being 
specific, would be preferable as a prophylactic, temporarily, 
to the sanies of gangrenous lungs, for inoculation. 
Hoping this will reach Mr. Western just in time for in- 
oculation experiments, I shall for the present close this 
paper with an apology for the length of it. 
