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We have already remarked, that the German veterinary sur- 
geons were the first who discovered that aphthous diseases were 
complicated with eruptions on the udder, which they denominated 
false cow-pox (falsche pocken). Those of 1834-5 were chiefly 
remarkable for this characteristic. Is it, then, impossible that 
Messrs. Hertwig, Mann, and Villain experimented not with the 
milk of a simply aphthous cow, but with that of an ani mal attacked 
with a species of vaccinoid affection, or with an enzootic that had 
taken on a certain form 1 
In conclusion, our researches, in conjunction with those already 
elicited , prove the innoxiousness of the milk ; and if, in some cases 
of peculiar malignity, it becomes altered, the alteration is never so 
great as to render it injurious to men or animals. Government 
must not therefore, relying on the opinion of M. Delafond, interdict 
the use of this produce. Such an interdiction would amount to a 
public calamity. 
Recueil de Medicine Veterinaire, March 1845. 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — I BEG to acquaint Mr. Flowers, the Secretary to 
the “ Farmers’ and Graziers’ Mutual Cattle Insurance Associ- 
ation,” that the remarks I made in The VETERINARIAN of 
December last, respecting the said Association and the veterinary 
profession, were on account of the conduct experienced by Mr. 
Cartwright from the Inspector of his district. I had no occasion 
to doubt the accuracy of his report, consequently I thought it a 
favourable opportunity to make known to the public that it is not 
agreeable to the feelings of the country veterinarian to be “ ridden 
over rough-shod” by the “ Mutual Association,” and to resist, as 
much as possible, the encroachment it is likely to make on our 
practice, before it (the Association) is generally established. How- 
ever harsh the Association may think me towards it, I feel it a 
duty, living in an agricultural district, to come to a proper under- 
standing with it at once. Although Mr. Shaw has put me right, 
as he states, on a matter of fact, by recording an instruction given 
to the Inspectors of the Association, — (viz. “The Veterinary Sur- 
geon : The object of the Association in appointing veterinary 
surgeons is not for the purpose of giving medical advice in cases 
of illness, but to decide the propriety of the course of treatment 
which is being pursued with sick stock when the Inspector questions 
the correctness of it, &c. &c.”) — he has by no means satisfied me 
