REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
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himself, “ There is my benefactor ; this, too, is a part of my 
acknowledgment to him : I have a share in the gratitude as 
in the profit.” This is a possible consummation; it is a 
just one, and therefore it should be attained 
We trust statues of Jenner may one day be multiplied 
until every large town has one, and every poor man has 
given his penny towards its erection. Meantime, Jenner has 
that proud monument which Wren boasted in a narrower 
limit, ee Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.” His glory 
shines in every fresh and healthy face ; his triumphs are 
enrolled in every family Bible ; his monument is not in one 
cathedral, but in every home. Such a man has little need, 
perhaps, of storied urn, or sculptured bust, to perpetuate his 
fame, for every day adds a stone to the temple in which his 
immortal discovery is self enshrined. This day we bring to 
it one such as time cannot injure, nor calumny blacken. 
We find the data in an admirable book recently published 
by Professor Guadet, chief director of instruction at the 
Imperial Hospital for the Blind at Paris, which treats upon 
persons afflicted with blindness. It is stated there that half 
of the children sent to the institution before the discovery of 
the immortal Jenner, had lost their sight as a sequence of 
smallpox. There were formerly more than 30,000 blind in 
France, and now, after Jenner’s discovery, there are not 
more than 25,000. The five thousand are the monuments 
of his glory ; the glorious living beauty of their visual orbs 
excels the art of the sculptor as greatly as his merits tran- 
scend those sculptured words which are, after all, mere dead 
forms — dry bones that want the living force of spoken praise. 
We may say of this wfflat Edrisi said of a less noble 
monument, “ Nulla sane huic columna similis.” — Lancet . 
REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE, STEPPE MURRAIN, 
OR RINDERPEST. 
By James Beart Simonds, Professor of Cattle Pathology 
in the Royal Veterinary College, London. 
( Continued from p. 280.) 
THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF THE RINDERPEST IN 
EASTERN EUROPE. 
Throughout the late war, the movements of the Russian 
troops necessarily called for the transit of large numbers of 
cattle to those places which the army successively occupied; 
