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And I rofessor Bollinger repeats (Ziemsscn’s Cyclopedia, 
Yol. 3, p. 314) : “ When we consider the diseases capable of being 
transmitted from animals to man, we cannot fail to be impressed 
with the fact, that in this respect, the relation between the two 
species is much more intimate than is generally appreciated. In 
addition to the more important maladies to which our attention is 
most frequently attracted, ( glanders , malignant pustule , hydro¬ 
phobia) it has been shown by numerous observations that another 
less formidable affection, foot and mouth disease , not unfrequently 
gives rise in man to a specific disorder. The communicability of 
cow pox to many, for the knowledge of which we are indebted to 
Jennei, has proved one of the greatest boons ever conferred upon 
mankind through the medium of the medical profession.” 
Let us now consider what effect the eating of meat specifically 
diseased will have on a community in the way of giving rise to 
sudden and general appearance of symptoms. Professor Law 
writes: (Article, Malignant Anthrax, Veterinary Adviser, p. 33): 
“ Eatm g of the flesh of animals killed while suffering in this 
way has often conveyed the disease in spite of the cooking to 
which it was subjected. Fifteen thousand of the inhabitants of 
St. Domingo once perished in six weeks from this cause, and a 
whole family was poisoned a few years ago in Aberdeen, Scotland. 
llie Tartars perish in great numbers from eating their anthrax 
horses.” 
The following interesting article “ On the Etiology of Typhoid 
Fever,” The Hahnemannian Monthly , March, 1881, p. 12), may 
serve to illustrate this point still further. The writer, after con¬ 
sidering defective water as a cause, continues: “ Again, a most 
remarkable epidemic of typhoid fever took place in Switzerland 
in 1878. It was reported by Or. Walder (Braithwaite’s Eetro- 
spect, part 79, p. 27). A choral festival was held, which was at¬ 
tended by about seven hundred people. Two public meals were 
given on the day of the festival, and of those who partook of them 
nearly live hundred were taken ill, some within a day or two, but 
more on the fifth or sixth day, and some still later. They all 
presented to a greater or less extent the symptoms of 
typhoid fever. A number of cases of secondary infec¬ 
tion took place among those nursing the sick or other- 
