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might be suspected. To admit an animal with the seeds of dis- 
ease in it, is as bad as, or even worse than, the admission of the 
animal actually diseased. Everybody would naturally be warned 
of the one; while the other, most unsuspectingly, would be allowed 
to run wild over entire flocks. But public quarantine cannot be per- 
formed without expense, and without some inconvenience too. 
We will not say that forty days of sequestration are required ; 
but we should not feel satisfied with less than a third of the 
time — say a fortnight. And this is a measure in our eyes so 
advisable, that, should the Legislature not, in their wisdom, think 
fit to insist upon it, we should strongly recommend farmers and 
graziers, buyers of foreign sheep, to institute such a precautionary 
measure of themselves — one that they, on their own farms, would 
find no difficulty in putting into practice. 
Supposing the small-pox actually to break out in a flock of 
sheep, after carefully electing the diseased from the healthy, and 
placing the former in such situation as the time of year and 
medical treatment together might render requisite, we feel no 
hesitation in saying that the next step should be to inoculate 
such as were in appearance still free from disease. Nay, ino- 
culation, safe and preservative as it has long been proved to be 
in countries from which the pox is rarely or never absent, might 
be wisely carried farther than this ; — might be employed, by way 
of prevention, on sheep living or pasturing in the vicinity even of 
contagion. An excellent paper of M. Delafond — translated from 
the French — in our present Number, will shew the advisability 
of such a measure, at the same time that it is sufficiently de- 
monstrative of the innocency of the artificial disease to cause all 
comparisons drawn between it and the natural pox to prepon- 
derate immensely in favour of the former. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry’s severe and protracted indisposition has, 
for the present, necessarily suspended the business of registration. 
Such gentlemen as may have been expecting to hear from him on 
the subject will be kind enough to receive this as notice of the reason 
of his silence. He is now, however, we are happy to have it in 
our power to say, on the road of amendment, and will, we hope, 
ere long, be as able as ever to answer for himself. 
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