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fares as are open to strange flocks ; they may likewise frequent 
the same watering-places, common, &c., without inconvenience. 
The epizootic will not last longer than the limits in a manner 
assigned it by man, and the sheep which have been inoculated 
will for ever be preserved against small-pox. And after a month 
or two, the farmer may dispose of his sheep in the public market 
without any apprehensions on the score of contagion. 
Thus, conservation of flocks with their fleeces, limited duration 
to the disease, its mitigation, inutility of sanitary measures and re- 
gulations, economy and peace of mind to the farmers, vendibility 
of the animals inoculated after a month or two from their having 
the disease, are the precious fruits of the practice of inoculation, 
whether it be on flocks afflicted with the pox, or on such as are yet 
free from it, though from the proximity of contagion to them hardly 
likely to escape it. And so inoculation has met with advocates in 
veterinarians of high repute ; among whom 1 may name Huzard, 
D’Arboval, Gragnier, Dupuy, Girard, and many farmers — Braban- 
gais, Dupreuil, Berthier, Fessand, & c., &c. ; the Society of the Pas- 
de-Calais in 1815 ; and the Minister of the Interior of the same 
year. Lastly, inoculation has been imperatively ordered to be put 
to trial by several prefectoral authorities, as I shall shew hereafter. 
Clavelisation (inoculation) of flocks of sheep, then, is a measure 
generally received as beneficial and advantageous, be it viewed in the 
light of private or public interest, with regard to isolated enzootic 
or epizootic pox, to sheep belonging to flocks already infected, or to 
such as are inevitably threatened with contagion. 
Nevertheless, objections have been raised against inoculation. 
At another time we shall examine these, and endeavour to combat 
them. 
[To be continued.] 
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( Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster , before the Lord Chief 
JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) 
Anderson v . Blackburn. 
This was an action to recover 120 guineas, the price of a horse 
sold by the plaintiff to the defendant. The defendant, except as 
to £16 odd, which he had paid into court, denied his liability. 
Mr. Sergeant Bytes and Mr. Edwin James were counsel for 
