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W. H. DALRYMPLE 
that graze over chese pastures. Knowing these facts, then, and 
considering the lack of information which prevails amongst our 
people as to the true nature of this disease and the empirical 
methods which are adopted in its treatment, is it any wonder 
that charbon spreads ? The wonder is that it does not spread 
more. 
The subject is one of vital importance, and every effort 
should be put forth by citizens to minimize the ravages of this 
disease to the utmost extent. This can only be done by a well 
organized system of strict sanitary regulations'. The matter is 
one which affects, not only the individual, but the community, 
the parish and the State. Control of the disease should be in 
the hands of the police juries, or Boards of Health, and every 
right minded citizen should render all the assistance within his 
power. Those owners who are sceptical—and some are always 
to be found in a community—should be brought into line and 
made to conform to the powers that be. For, the scepticism or 
unreasonableness of one individual, owning an animal affected 
with charbon, may be the means of counteracting all the good 
that would otherwise be accomplished. 
We have no hesitation in saying that, if our stock-owning 
public would take the trouble to familiarize themselves with the 
true nature of the contagious diseases that are so destructive to 
their live stock interests, and the rational sanitary measures for 
their prevention and extermination, the time would soon arrive 
when the appearance of these fatal animal ailments, some of 
which, like charbon, are transmissible to human beings, would 
be looked upon, not with the dread which at present accompa¬ 
nies them, but they would be met with the composure which 
results from an exact and thorough knowledge of the proper 
methods wherewith to combat them satisfactorily. Then would 
the “sure preventive and cure ” be found, not in the nostrum of 
the empiric or the charlatan, but in the knowledge and rational 
plicatioi of the principles of modern sanitary science. 
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