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Market, into which they had reason to believe that large 
numbers of diseased cattle were introduced, and from thence 
spread disease throughout the country, should be inspected. 
They therefore detailed two of their inspectors for this par¬ 
ticular weekly service, and they have reason to believe that, 
owing to this inspection, a fruitful source of disease has been 
stopped.” We do not doubt the truth of this conclusion, any 
more than we doubt the existence of wide -spread mischief all 
over the country from neglect of this obvious precaution. 
Equally true is the suggestion which we meet with a little 
further on :—“ Your committee, in conclusion, beg to point 
out that, in their opinion, much of the spread of disease 
(particularly that of foot-and-mouth) is attributable to the 
careless disregard, on the part of owners of stock, of the pro¬ 
visions of the law, which imposes upon them the necessity of 
reporting cases of disease and taking subsequent precautionary 
measures with respect to cattle affected ; and they are further 
of opinion that the only remedy for this state of things is to 
be found in the imposition of. severe penalties upon the 
offenders who evade the law.” To all the executive com¬ 
mittees, and they are many, who believe that their duties are 
well done when they cause to be printed an Order of Coun¬ 
cil, and deem that policemen are competent veterinary in¬ 
spectors, we commend the report before us; they will rise 
from its perusal wiser if not happier men.— The Field. 
Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF VIRUS AND VIRULENT MALADIES. 
By M. A. Chaveau. 
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True virulent maladies, in the state that I shall show that 
science has actually arrived, should be considered entirely 
distinct from parasitic affections. Their intimate and essen¬ 
tial cause does not at all reside in the development of the 
proto-organisms which produce the septic or septicoid 
diseases to which I have alluded, or of every other of the 
numerous parasitic being which, from the acarus to the 
psorosperm, may live and multiply at the expense of man 
