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the disease, and three or four that had not the disease were placed with 
them, and two had it and recovered. With reference to the inoculation 
he had known it to have been tried upon the Continent, in Germany 
especially, and in Russia. Some years ago Professor Simonds and Mr. 
Ernes were commissioned by the three National Agricultural Societies of 
England, Ireland, and Scotland, to investigate cattle plague. They went 
over Austria, Galicia, Prussia, &c., and came to the conclusion that the 
only plan to adopt was to stamp it out; this was also his opinion. He 
could not conceive that in the diseases of glanders and farcy inoculation 
would be of any service ; still it was a matter worth investigation. The 
isolated case which Mr. Furnival had given them, of the young bull, 
was insufficient to rely upon. It did appear some good had been done 
with pleuro-pneumonia; but he failed to see how, in regard to the other 
diseases, the introduction of the same disease, as a cure, could restore 
the animal to health. 
Mr. Martin thought it a very important subject. He believed it 
would be difficult to induce the public to allow them to inoculate from 
cattle with pleuro-pneumonia, to introduce it into their stock. Mr. 
Fleming had written a great deal in the journal about the success in 
Scotland. He would like to know more of Mr. Furnival’s treatment in 
the cases of pleuro-pneumonia, whether the virus Was taken from the 
lungs, and what the symptoms exhibited were? 
Mr. Moore had been in very many cowsheds in London, especially in 
the parish of Marylebone, and found nearly all keepers had their cows 
inoculated ; they could not make a living unless they did so. Most men 
who kept 100 cows inoculated all of them, and he had seen them in all 
stages of inoculation, the day of operation and months afterwards; the loss 
was something like 1 per cent. The symptoms begin to exhibit them¬ 
selves after they have been in from a week to twenty-one days ; there is a 
swelling of the tail when the inoculation took, where it ought to be swollen 
—and often around the fundament, which closes the passage; this swell¬ 
ing has a strong resemblance to lung disease. There are about 700 or 
800 dairymen in London, and with few exceptions they all inoculate ; some 
do not like to, it takes the milk off for a time. It was easy to under¬ 
stand how the disease broke out among a lot of cattle when two or three 
were affected, viz. by inhaling the breath of a diseased cow, and if 
several become affected all the others are saved, unless perhaps one or 
two die from the effects ; it will run through them all or nearly all. 
The prize beast taken to Argyllshire from England in 1871 took the 
disease with him, and a number of animals had in consequence to be 
destroyed. One man threatened him if he went into his barn. The 
veterinary surgeon there was a brother-in-law of a farmer at Hendon. 
They inoculated 1800 in Campbelltown, and since then there has not 
been a single case of pleuro-pneumonia in it. If this can be done in a place 
where there is so much to hinder it, why cannot it be done in London ? 
Mr. Rutherford, who is an elderly man, induced the cowkeepers of 
Edinburgh to adopt inoculation. Mr. Gamgee attempted to do it many 
years ago and failed signally. Since last year there has been no case of 
pleuro-pneumonia in the neighbourhood. He contended if there was an 
Act of Parliament similar to the Yaccination Act, to have cattle inocu¬ 
lated, instead of knocking them on the head with a piece of cold steel, it 
would be a great saving to the cattle proprietor, who only got three 
fourths the value of the cow. Two or three years since he saw some 
twenty or thirty members of Parliament on the subject, and he was 
astonished to find that scarcely any of them knew or had ever heard of 
inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia. Sir Patrick O’Brien brought it forward, 
and his answer was, “ There was not sufficient evidence to induce the 
