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d’Azyr, affirm that the epizootic, both natural and produced by 
inoculation, will render the cattle free from all future attack ; and 
yet Camper strangely cites a case in which six beasts that had 
previously suffered by it experienced another attack after inocu- 
lation, and Vicq-d’Azyr mentions a case which he regards as 
suspicious. 
“A contrary opinion is maintained by Dufot, Courtirron, clinical 
professor at the veterinary school at Lyons, Girard, and Dupuy ; 
and in Italy by Leroy and Volpi. One circumstance must not 
be forgotten, and it goes far towards settling the question of ino- 
culation. When that operation has been attempted, and suc- 
ceeded, i. e., a pustular eruption has appeared on the cow, and no 
ill effects have followed, it was when the inoculation was effected 
at the time that the malady was worn out, and shewed an evi- 
dent tendency to cease, while the results of inoculations effected 
at the commencement of the epizootic attack — at the moment 
when the virus had its greatest power — were serious and fearful, 
and often worse than the disease itself. 
“ The practice of inoculation as referrible to this disease ought, 
therefore, decidedly to cease, for it tends to favour the propaga- 
tion of this epizootic, to perpetuate its existence, to augment in- 
stead of diminish the mortality, and, at all events, to intro- 
duce another disease as murderous as that whose ravages it pro- 
fesses to restrain . ” 
[To be continued.] 
THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1841. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
A meeting of the following gentlemen, veterinary surgeons 
in Glasgow, took place on the 5th of April, 1841 : — 
Mr. Sinclair 
— Byers 
— Moore 
— Anderson 
— Lea. 
