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never been offered for the horse which can cover most ground in 
a day, or in a week ? The answer, we fear, must be sought in 
the fact that such races would ill suit the class to whom the 
horse is a mere tool for gambling. 
Mr. Ram’s work deserves, from a national point of view, very 
careful consideration. 
Remarks on Cattle-Plague Vaccination. Translated from the 
French of Dr. C. Pigeon, of Fourchambault. With an 
Appendix on the Inoculation of Goats with the Virus of 
Pleuro-Pneumonia. London : Vacher and Sons. 
A few days ago the French nation, by their Parliamentary repre- 
sentatives, have voted almost unanimously to Prof. Pasteur a 
pension of 25,000 francs annually, with remainder to his wife 
and children. All the political parties seemed agreed, and the 
discussion raised by a few members was barely tolerated. In 
full opposition to this vote, Dr. Pigeon proclaims Pasteur’s dis- 
covery a complete failure ! Surely such a question as that of 
the efficacy or inefficacy, the safety or the danger, of a method 
of treating a given disease admits of being brought to an abso- 
lute decision ! On the title-page of the pamphlet is given an 
extract from a speech of Dr, B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., in which 
we find these words : — “ This manufacture of spic-and-span new 
diseases in our species is too much to endure the thought of, 
especially when we know that purity of life is all-sufficient to 
remove what exists, without invoking what is not.” Very fine ; 
but what definite, practical meaning are we to attach to the 
floscule “ purity of life ” ? Taking the words in their sanitary 
meaning, we cannot forget that rinder-pest sometimes passed 
over cattle lodged in filthy, undrained, and unventilated stalls, to 
attack a herd in some model farm where every conceivable ap- 
pliance was used to secure the absence of all foci of disease. 
We should like, therefore, some tangible instructions. As for 
the goats in South Africa, the sooner they are extirpated the 
better. 
