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VACCINE AND CALF VACCINATION. 
surgeon to do this, no one will, I think, attempt to deny. It 
is for him to select the animals which are free from hereditary 
diseases, and those are not always of the purest or highest 
breed. 
The sister profession should join hand-in-hand in this 
matter, as thereby much human suffering, and ultimate 
disease may be prevented. 
Cases. 
In May, 1874, I was requested to attend some cows 
belonging to a farmer; one had died a few days prior to my 
visit, and another was then seriously ill. Upon examination 
of this cow, I found the respiration quickened, and accom¬ 
panied with a low moan; pulse much accelerated and weak ; 
the respiratory murmur of both lungs, below their middle 
third, decreased in amount, seemingly due to slight con¬ 
gestion ; extremities cold ; secretion of milk lessened; and 
the udder literally covered with small red pimples in their 
last stage. T informed the owner that the animal would 
die, which she did in two days afterwards. 
On inquiring if any of the other cows were similarly 
affected, I was informed that most of them had had “ cow- 
pox ; ” but that it was dying away as on this cow’s udder. 
Upon examination I found them all, six in number, to be 
suffering in different stages of spurious variola. Some 
of the animals were still unwell, and in all there was 
a decrease in the quantity of milk. The weather being 
cold, I had them “ to house, and treated them ” secundem 
artern , and they all soon recovered. 
In May, 1878, I was requested to visit two cows, the one 
a Hereford, the other a shorthorn, said to be suffering badly 
from ei cow-pox,” the others of the herd having recovered. 
The Hereford I found in the second stage, and progressing 
favorably. 
The udder of the shorthorn was covered was confluent sores. 
There was only a small secretion of milk, and this was being 
entirely used for an infant then ill and under medical 
treatment. I presumed to state the danger of allowing the 
child to partake of the milk, and advised that it should not 
have any more of it. My advice was at once adopted, and 
the infant became soon convalescent. 
But what of the cow ? The man—whose duty it was to 
attend upon the animals and milk them—had a slight scratch 
upon one of his fingers, inoculation took place, and abcesses 
formed in various parts of the hand; the arm swelled to a 
fearful size, and the man was seriously ill for several months. 
On recovery, his usual strength did not return for some time. 
