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WISJIOIll OF CABIPEB. 
to the farmer and tlie trader, presently led the way 
to a double inoculation ; first ere the calf left the 
cow-house ; and secondly, wlieu it had attained the 
age of three or four months ; and this was resorted 
to, not because it was believed that they were twice 
susceptible of taking the disease by inoculation or 
otherwise, but that no doubt might possibly remain 
that they had in reality taken, and so passed through 
•a. 
It. 
Mankind have been in a most especial manner in- 
debted to the cow, inasmuch as inoculation was su- 
perseded by vaccination — the security against one 
of the greatest plagues which was ever indicted up- 
on our race. Would our modern Jenners be of- 
fended, if we should venture to hint, that the com- 
plete success which attended the method of vacci- 
nation in the case of the cow, miglit, by possibility, 
supply them with a hint which would afresh remove 
the alarm, the uncertainty, and the danger which, 
at the present moment, is experienced on the sub- 
ject of vaccination? 
And as we have been thus bold in tendering a 
hint to the profession of which Camjier was so great 
an ornament, so we may venture to suggest that his 
inquiries into another disease to which cattle are 
subject, may supply to them a piece of useful infor- 
mation. 
It is a matter of genera! notoriety, that a wound 
proceeding from the body of a dead person, is often the 
most poisonous and deadly of any that can be inflicted. 
