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Mr, Furnival should have come there prepared to give a better proof of 
the efficacy of inoculation for cattle plague. He did not regard the one 
isolated case of supposed recovery as at all conclusive. 
In pleuro-pneumonia he thought a good deal might be done by inocu¬ 
lation, because nineteen cowkeepers in London, at the present time, had 
their cows inoculated with pleuro-pneumonia virus. 
With regard to the inoculation of farcy, he would ask Mr. Furnival 
what kind of animals those were he inoculated from, and what in the 
world was the use of inoculating an animal with a disease that was in the 
system; whether he gave them any medicine, and how long the horses 
were under treatment ? It was marvellous for any one to say he could 
cure farcy, and give them no practical proof of it; and it was very 
questionable policy indeed for any member of the profession to come 
there, and say he could cure pleuro-pneumonia, cattle plague, or 
glanders. 
Mr. Furnival said he did not include glanders. 
Mr. Price thought farcy even more contagious than glanders; he 
believed it did more harm in London at the present moment. 
The Secretary said the question before them was as to the efficacy or 
not of inoculation for certain affections, glanders, farcy, and pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. In distemper in the dog the inoculation with another 
virus (in other words, vaccination) was held to afford the animal an 
immunity from distemper; numbers of people believed in it. For years 
he would not vaccinate, but at length on account of the fee and multi¬ 
plicity of applications he thought he would give it the best test he could. 
On one occasion he went a long journey to vaccinate twenty-five dogs ; 
he chose the nape of the neck; he wrote to the owner some time after¬ 
wards to know how they were (in the meantime he had vaccinated some 
more for him). The reply he received was to the effect that the whole 
of the twenty-five dogs he vaccinated were all well; of the last three, 
two had had the disease—one severely—and died. He asked himself 
the question, what caused that ? Had he operated properly upon these 
three or was the lymph different ? He thought not. 
A great deal of farcy was about, but was unnoticed being inside the 
legs and groins; these horses were worked. At one time he knew 
exactly where to find cases, but now he never saw one ; if he saw a pos¬ 
sibility of recovery he would be the first to do his best towards that end. 
In valuable horses, where the animals were more or less vigorous and 
good-conditioned, it was worth while to take some trouble, and there 
was some merit in success. 
Mr. Furnival , replying to a question asked by the Secretary, with 
reference to the horses, said two were hunters, the other three carriage 
horses ; the cost of the three was £4 each, the other two £5 each; they 
were from eleven to thirteen weeks getting well. He afterwards sold them, 
with a written warranty, at Firmins, and they realised from forty-five to 
fifty guineas each. 
Mr. Woodger, jun. } was inspector in 1865-6, and went through many 
sheds, and found several instances of cattle plague. Some cows withstood 
the disease, and never had it; others had it one or two years later. The 
second time we had cattle plague there were a lot of Dutch cattle 
affected ; these were less severely so than in 1865 6. He wished to know 
when Mr. Furnival tried his experiments. (In reply, during 1865.) And 
he remarked that he had given no reason why he thought inoculation was 
a preventive to disease. 
With reference to inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia, he had, when in¬ 
spector in 1865, inquired into it. He knew it had been practised for many 
