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He declared that if the efficacy of inoculation can be logically 
admitted as having been demonstrated by experiments, one must 
necessarily recommend, not only facultative, but obligatory 
inoculations. The proof of this last does not yet appear. 
Inoculation on the tail does not give a disease analogous to 
pleuro-pneumonia, as ought to take place were the affection 
really communicated. He needed some proofs of the acquired im¬ 
munity, and he wanted to see it demonstrated that animals do really 
remain refractory to contamination or to new inoculation. But 
testing (i cnteres) iuoculations performed upon animals operated 
upon once with success, have been followed by death, as reported 
by Messrs. Cagny and Zundel. And again, it cannot be said that 
pleuro-pneumonia is a microbian disease; until to-day at least, this 
microbe, if it exists, has neither been isolated or demonstrated. 
The principle of preventive inoculation can be applied generally. 
As far as the faeultativehnoculation, he believes that every¬ 
body ought to be free to use it or reject it, as he believes best. 
He mentioned examples where, yery often, the happy results 
attributed to the method of Dr. Willems, were only pure coinci¬ 
dences ; analagous facts being met with in locations where inocu- 
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lation had not been performed. 
M.r Lvdtin : “ The researches made in the laboratory of the 
office of public hygeine in Germany, have so far failed to dis- 
the cover microbe of pleuro-pneumonia virus.” 
Mr. Hugues, delegate of the French Society of Lot-et-Garonne, 
proposed the following: “ Among preventive measures, inocula¬ 
tion is strongly recommended.” • 
He presented the committee a short note relating to the ques¬ 
tion of the day, and asked its insertion in the bulletin of the 
Congress: adopted. 
Mr. Fleming asked if the disease can be propagated by inocula¬ 
ted animals. He does not believe that the affection is transmitted 
by the expired breath of its subjects. 
He was a partisan of inoculation, and his ideas were based on 
numerous observations made in Scotland. It might be employed 
in large herds where slaughtering would be too ruinous; he 
would advise it in countries notably infested with disease. 
