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out of 1000 lambs inoculated 100 died. fn another case 
550 were inoculated, and not one died. The total number 
of the lambs inoculated was 10,108; the mortality 121, the 
average being less than one per cent. 
France possesses at least 30,000,000 of sheep, three fourths 
of which are ewes, from which about 15,000,000 of lambs are 
produced per annum. If these were all inoculated, and sup¬ 
posing the mortality to be as before-nameil, it would be a 
loss of 150,000 head of sheep yearly, which would amount 
to 3,000,000 in twenty years. Is it to be presumed that the 
malady itself would be more destructive in that time than this, 
or cause so severe a loss ? 
The conclusions of the author are, that a general inocula¬ 
tion, in times of epizootic variola, being resorted to for all the 
lambs, without distinction, would be a measure calculated to 
do more harm than good, even if it were proved that the 
malady only occurred once in the life of the individual. 
Neither is it proved that the inoculation has in any way 
lessened the mortality in those flocks where the malady had 
already made its appearance at the time it was put into 
practice. 
Further, that evidently the only advantage is, that by 
inoculation the progress of the malady is accelerated, thereby 
shortening the period of sequestration ; and that other 
sanitary measures resorted to for this malady are, to say the 
least, inconvenient and onerous to the proprietor, as well as 
contrary to the industry and the supply of food to the 
nation. 
POLL-EVIL COMPLICATED WITH CARIES OF THE 
CERVJCAL LIGAMENT. 
Oct. 12th.—A gelding was brought to the infirmary of the 
school, having a tumour on the poll. 
The information given was, that the tumour had been 
opened soon after its appearance, and a seton passed through 
it. A great quantity of pus had escaped, but the tumour had 
not diminished in size. 
The animal carried its head low ; was in an extreme state 
of debility; the poll was tumefied, hard, hot, and painful; 
there were two openings in it, one on the right side, the 
other on the left, through which a seton had evidently been 
passed under the cervical ligament; these openings dis- 
