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tions of the chorda from its action in those morbid conditions 
affecting it, the nature of the shock as well as the resulting 
influence engendered by continuity of structure or by actual 
contact, must never be lost sight of; nerves, themselves un¬ 
injured, may suffer in their action by transmitted in¬ 
fluence.” I feel it is absolutely essential that we should 
give full justice and appreciation to the careful experimental 
researches of Dr. Bigelow, and, should these receive the 
further corroboration of scientists, the only rational supposi¬ 
tion and conclusion which we might be able to arrive at 
from a study of the case before us would be that dependent 
upon and through the intimate contiguity of structures, the 
nerve of Wrisberg must have been alike involved with the 
facial, and thus the production of the pathological conditions 
presented to us. This case appears to me to be one of con¬ 
siderable importance, and on this plea I have been led to 
trespass so lengthily upon your valuable space. 
VACCINE AND CALF VACCINATION. 
By George Lewis, M.R.C.V.S., Monmouth. 
I have read with much interest the letters and remarks 
upon the above in the Veterinarian, especially those by 
Mr. Ceeley, in which he relates some of his experiments 
with the contents of vesicles on the udders of cows. 
I have observed that the udder of the cow is affected by 
two kinds of varioloid eruptions, which, under certain cir¬ 
cumstances, rather closely resemble each other in appear¬ 
ance. One of these is benign, the other not so, but often 
very virulent in its nature, sometimes producing alarming 
symptoms and even death, its virulent effects being greater 
in animals suffering from disease, hereditary or otherwise. 
Both of these diseases would seem to be communicable to 
man, but not to be equally severe. The effects of the malady, 
which is most closely allied to true vaccine, if not identical 
therewith, are not injurious ; rather otherwise. But those of 
the spurious kind are highly injurious, producing both local 
and constitutional disturbances. I have also noticed that 
persons partaking of the milk from animals so affected, 
become ill in consequence. 
From these observations, illustrated by the following 
cases, selected from a large number of others, it is evident 
that the greatest caution and skill should be exercised in 
selecting the vaccine lymph for vaccination in the human 
subject. That it is the peculiar province of the veterinary 
