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the consequence was that that country had to be scheduled. 
His Lordship read an extract from the report of the highest 
veterinary scientist of America, who declared that pleuro¬ 
pneumonia did exist, and had done so for some time, through¬ 
out the States; and he declared, moreover, that the disease 
would be in the cattle for six w^eeks or two months 
without making its appearance, and that the disease was 
was of the most insidious kind, and although it might escape 
attention at first, would at last do the greatest destruction. 
His Lordship reminded them of how difficult it w r as in a 
country situated as America was to secure proper protection 
from the ravages of disease ; and even if the west was per¬ 
fectly free, there w ? as no guarantee that the east would be. If 
he w ere convinced that there were not sufficient regulations in 
America to arrest the disease there, and they had shown that 
there w r as not proper legislation to prevent it, he really could 
not under the Act of Parliament modify the Orders in Council 
regulating the importation of cattle from abroad. He read 
an extract from a Chicago newspaper to show how careless 
the system for the prevention of the spread of the disease 
w T as in America. Generally speaking, therefore, he could 
not alter or reverse the restrictions wfiich the late administra¬ 
tion in its wisdom deemed it wise to impose, although he 
should have been glad if he could have done so. He could 
not help feeling, however, that they might develop the dead- 
meat trade more than was done. He urged that upon the 
attention of the trade. He should do all he could to make 
the administration of the laws as little onerous as possible to 
the meat consuming population of the country. 
The deputation thanked his Lordship and withdrew.— 
North British Agriculturist. 
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By Gustav Bischof. 
We have exhaustive treatises by such men as Albrecht 
von Haller, Panum, John Simon, Arnold Hiller, Burdon- 
Sanderson, J. Netten Radcliffe, and others, on the pathological 
effects of common putrid matter when introduced into the 
animal system by water or otherwise. Closely connected 
with this question is another, which, probably on account 
of the difficulty of direct investigation, has not, as far as I 
* A paper read before the Society of Medical Officers of Health on May 
1G, 1879. 
