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in extinguishing it. Contagious pleuro-pneumonia still lingers m 
these islands, and will continue to do so in all probability until 
the end of time, unless its insidious contagiousness and protracted 
latency are fully recognized, and the utility of inoculation as a 
protective measure fairly acknowledged and resorted to when 
necessary. The mere slaughter and isolation of diseased centres 
for a short time, as is at present carried out, will not extinguish 
the scourge. The evidence in support of protective inoculation 
is now too serious to be sneered down, or made the sport of small 
witlings who joke about 4 pleuro-pneumonia in the tail.’ It is 
curious that while certain authorities have done their utmost to 
discredit inoculation, they have never attempted to explain, if 
they understood, its phenomena. There can be no doubt that 
when properly performed, and when all due care is exercised, it 
is as protective, if no more so, than vaccination is of human 
variola; that the morbid process set up as the result of inocula¬ 
tion is specific, and is not witnessed, so far as we can ascertain, in 
any other than the bovine species, and that the entire organism 
appears to be affected. 
44 This pitiless and continued slaughter of diseased cows, and 
the terrible embarrassment to agriculturalists which the present 
fruitless measures produce, will soon become little short of a 
crime, in presence of the absolute immunity and humanity which 
are the attributes of protective inoculation.” 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE A, V, C-ITS HISTORY. 
By W. H. Hoskins, D.V.S. 
A Paper read at the Alumni meeting, February, 1884. 
Continued from page 120. 
Passing on to a finer subdivision, one from among our num¬ 
ber is now officiating as Milk Inspector for a large district, and 
to his zealous labors a large body of the people of the second city 
of the Union have much for which to be thankful, for from his 
reports 1 garner a large and varied number of methods of adul¬ 
terating and doctoring milk, some of which are highly injurious 
to our diminutive population, and instead of giving health and 
