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the following day, and the whole of his 97 head had to be shot.* The 
question comes, Was there a cure for this? He had a pedigree bull, 
bought it at Mr. Dean’s sale, giving 250 guineas for it. It got a slight 
touch, but not caring to destroy him, consulted a Scotchman, his bailiff, 
who suggested a good idea—to take a straw rick, cut it through, and 
make a loose box with an up and down shaft. This advice was acted 
upon, and the bull inoculated. The treatment pursued was diniodide 
of copper with suphate of iron and cantharides ; it was allowed the 
most generous diet obtainable. He kept it sixteen weeks, it gradually 
picked up in condition, and he had the animal still, showing, he thought, 
that by inoculation cattle plague was curable. 
Acute Glanders. —Here there were all the symptoms—defluxion of the 
nose, stinking breath, swollen tongue and gums, and the horrid effluvia 
of the breath. Knew of no analogous case recorded in veterinary works, 
with the exception of one cured in the year 1842, which was recorded 
in Percivall’s £ Hippopathology,’ vol. 3, page 184, and also inserted in 
the Veterinarian of 1842 by Mr. Ernes: “He was called to a case on 
the 6th October, found swellings of the hind legs and enlargement of 
the parotid glands, with copious discharge from the nostrils, &c.” 
Mr. Martin asked what was the bull inoculated from ? 
Mr. Furnival. —From one of the diseased cows directly they were 
slaughtered. The question has been asked by our continental brethren 
as to whether anything can be done for it, and he thought his was a 
bond fide case. In pleuro-pneumonia in cattle he believed that by inocu¬ 
lation not only could it be cured, but prevented. This last year—1879— 
he personally inoculated 1500 head of cattle, some affected with it, some 
not, and had not lost one per cent. On farcy in horses, had tried that 
by inoculation ; in seven cases inoculated could truly say he had suc¬ 
ceeded in curing them, afterwards selling them at Aldridge’s. He gave 
four guineas each for them, and they realised £30 each. He proposed 
to spend some £500 to obtain diseased horses, so satisfied was he for 
inoculation if Parliament would sanction it, and instanced the public 
recognition of Mr. Rutherford’s services in inoculating a couple of 
thousand cows in Edinburgh by the testimonial received in 1879. 
Mr. H. J. Hancock asked, with reference to the bull, if there was any 
suspicion the animal was affected with cattle plague at the time of 
inoculation ; also what virus was selected. He did not think one isolated 
case was any proof inoculation would be a preventive or palliative to 
cattle plague. 
As to glanders, in his father’s time many animals were treated, and 
several recovered and lived for some years, and no inoculation was 
practised. Were the horses suffering from farcy at the time, also what 
did Mr. Furnival inoculate them from ? 
Mr. Furnival , in reply, was satisfied this bull had the cattle plague on 
him, but in a mild form. The virus was a portion of the lung he took 
from the diseased cows and selecting between the third and fourth 
coccygeal bones he made an incision in either side of the tail and put 
a piece in and bound it round the tail of the bull. With reference to 
the animals suffering from farcy, when bought they had got from twenty 
to thirty farcy buds on them; he slaughtered one on purpose to inocu¬ 
late the other ; he took out a fair portion of the flesh with the bud 
in, and inserted it in the incision made between the third or fourth 
bone of the tail of the horse he had. 
Mr. G. Banham observed that he had heard and read of cases re- 
[# Mr. Furnival’s memory seems to have misled him with regard to 
the part taken by Prof, Simonds in these cases.— Ed.] 
