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SMALL- POX IN SHEEP. 
hours. At the expiration of that time the ship should be pumped 
as dry as possible, the well thoroughly cleansed and washed 
with the solution, and the operation repeated as occasion may 
require. 
ONE PART FLUID TO SIXTY PARTS WATER. 
For sponging the person in fever cases. — Use the solution either 
cold or of the temperature of the patient. 
N.B. — When floors and other wood work are washed with the 
solution, the use of soap, soda, or potash should be avoided imme- 
diately before or after its application. 
Brit. Amer. Jour, of Med. Science. 
Foreign Extracts. 
Of the Clavelisation ( Inoculation for Small-pox) of Flocks of Sheep 
viewed as a Measure of Sanitary Police. 
By O. Delafond. 
[From the Recueil de M4decine V6t6rinaire for January 1848.] 
{Second article , continued from page 392.) 
13. The advantages resulting from inoculation in the case of 
isolated enzootic or epizootic pox are numerous and indisputable. 
It will be easy to point them out : — 
Istly, The inoculation of flocks already attacked with flie pox, 
whether it be in an enzootic or epizootic form, and consequently 
threatened with natural infection, is a measure the general advan- 
tages of which admit of no dispute. I shall, however, once more 
agitate the question by a reference to the public accounts made 
up to the present time of the mortality of small-pox. 
Huard, Valois, Langlois, Guillaume, Buignot, D’Arboval, Grag- 
nier, Girard, & c. &c., have in France made numerous inoculations 
on animals that have come out of flocks among whom evident 
symptoms of primary and secondary stages of pox have been mani- 
fest, and consequently that have been on the verge of natural in- 
fection. 
1st. They have inoculated rams, ewes in lamb or giving suck, 
lambs from three days to ten months old, fat sheep and lean sheep, 
of the common French breed and of Spanish breed, both pure and 
impure. 
2dly. French breeds from the south, north, east, and west of 
France. 
3dly. Sheep bred and brought up in places where the disease 
annually prevails, but not destructively, as well as from situations 
where its prevalence is but accidental, though destructive when it 
