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an epidemic of contagious pneumonia in Canada and the United 
States ? 
5th. Have they never heard of the pneumococcus germ of 
Friedlander found constant in the recent croupous pneumonia of 
man and investigated by Dr. Sternberg, of the United States 
army ? 
Manifestly, Drs. Swinburne and Gallinger have been oblivious 
to the medical progress of the last century, and have just awoke 
from a Rip Van Winkle sleep. 
It may be objected that the micrococcus of Friedlander has not 
been inoculated experimentally from man to man. This must be 
allowed. The sacredness of human life forbids. But this is just 
where the despised veterinarians occupy a vantage ground over 
the physicians of man and have largely availed of it, and more 
than anywhere else in this very lung plague or contagions pleuro¬ 
pneumonia of cattle which has so disturbed our two self-consti¬ 
tuted political scientists. 
As early as 1852, Willems and Van Hempen, of Hasselt, Bel¬ 
gium, demonstrated the micrococcus of lung plague, and inocu¬ 
lated it on cattle, thereby conferring an immunity from subse¬ 
quent attacks of the disease. Since that time it has been prac¬ 
ticed on many hundreds of thousands of cattle in all parts of the 
world into which the disease has been carried and implanted by 
trade, and thus a demonstration has been given as to the specific 
and contagious nature of the disease, which cannot be claimed for 
any specific disease of man. It had long been known that one 
attack of this disease protected the system from a second attack 
on a subsequent exposure, and now we have as ample evidence 
that a mild attack produced by inoculation is as surely protective 
as is the disease contracted in the ordinary way, or as is the vac¬ 
cinated person protected against small-pox. Can anything be 
conceived of that will speak more forcibly as to the specific and 
contagious nature of this disease ? 
Cultures of the micrococcus have been made in artificial 
media, but any evidence from that source would be superfluous. 
I would add a word as to the unmerited slanders thrown by 
these doctors on the veterinarians. Had they kept abreast of 
