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parts of the district^ and that the losses consequent on it 
had been greater than in the district Rummelsburg, and, 
moreover, that the malady had since become enzootic, and 
caused every year considerable losses amongst the numerous 
flocks kept in close proximity. Besides, the public had a 
wrong notion of the malady, some were for, others against, 
the inoculation ; others, again, amongst which a young noble¬ 
man, was very active, pretended to cure it by homoeopathy. 
They asserted that the inoculation of lambs was detrimental 
to their growth, and that the losses from it were as great 
as those caused by the natural sheep-pox. In this they 
must have referred to unskilful operation undertaken in bad 
weather, and other unfavorable circumstances, &c. Those 
who had escaped this malady, fortunately or unfortunately, 
recommended their pretended preservatives to others who 
found to their cost that in their flocks they were worse than 
useless. Few followed the directions of professional veteri¬ 
nary surgeons; the author regrets to say the instructions 
given were sometimes from private motives contradictory in 
their character. Finally, all the flocks were inoculated, and 
many of the sheep proprietors had their lambs inoculated in 
the autumn. This plan,however,fell into desuetude, andinocu- 
lations were undertaken indifferently in summer, autumn, and 
winter, not always by veterinary surgeons, but frequently by 
shepherds, land stewards, and others, which caused the 
greatest confusion ; statistics were no longer furnished by go¬ 
vernment veterinary surgeons at the expense of the state, as 
the authorities of Cbslin refused to pay the travelling ex¬ 
penses, and the police had no fund applicable for the purpose ; 
it thus came to pass that the fresh outbreaks of sheep-pox 
were seldom reported to the district authority, and even 
sometimes concealed, so that no preventive measures were 
adopted. In reference to inoculation, the author considers it 
a great advance in veterinary science, and shows that great 
benefit has been derived from its employment more particu¬ 
larly as a prophylactic; but he does not hold with the yearly 
inoculation of the lambs at a time when* the malady does 
not prevail, indeed he considers it dangerous in the highest 
degree. The question of the spontaneous origin of the sheep- 
pox has, owing to the different outbreaks in the district, often 
occurred to the mind, and it may be supposed it would be easily 
settled considering the rapid development of disease in the 
respective flocks (consisting of some 250,000 head in 1864), 
but this is not the case. If we bear in mind that the malady is 
of rare occurrence in the western provinces of the kingdom, and 
that every outbreak has been clearly traced to the introduction 
