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but the sucking-calves hud it on the nose and lips. The* pigs 
which consorted on the same pastures were not infected. The 
eruption was typical. According to the Deutsche Zeitschrift fur 
Thiermedicin (December 1879), cow-pox appeared as an epizooty 
in the summer of 1876, in the vicinity of .Reykjavik, Iceland. It 
had never been seen there before, and caused very great alarm ; 
all the milch cows became progressively affected, and in several 
instances milkers got inoculated in the hands. Neither in this, 
nor any other of the outbreaks mentioned above, is any allusion 
made to small-pox being prevalent in mankind. 
In this country we have no means of arriving at any conclu¬ 
sion in regard to the extent to which it may prevail, as no reports 
are called for by government, and veterinary surgeons are seldom, 
if ever, required to attend cases of cow-pox, these being usually 
so trifling. Indeed, it is not at all improbable that many pass 
unperceived, and those observed are not mentioned by dairy-keep¬ 
ers or milkers, or they may look upon the eruption as analogous 
to that which is sometimes seen on the teats or udder after par¬ 
turition. The vesicles are broken, too, almost before they are 
developed, in the act of milking, and the sores which result are 
considered to be only simple abrasions or fissures, so common in 
this region. Therefore it is that there are very few veterinary 
surgeons, even of those practising in the most populous cattle 
districts in this country, who have ever seen a case of cow-pox. 
But we see no reason for thinking that the malady is much less 
common here than elsewhere—say in Wurtemberg, where the 
government reports, drawn up by district veterinary surgeons, are 
very full and complete, and wheVe rewards are offered for ever}’ 
case of cow-pox from which children can be vaccinated. Accord¬ 
ing to Hering, (Iiejportorium der Thierheilkunde),m Wurtemberg, 
during the ten years from 1827-37, there were sixty-nine cases 
out of eighty-four which furnished an excellent vaccine lymph, 
and 152 out of 208 cases in which the lymph did not yield such 
satisfactory results; making in all about thirty reported cases 
every year. In 1873, there were thirty-nine cases, from which 
fifty-two children were successfully vaccinated ; the cases were 
most numerous in April (18),'May (13,) and June (8), and one 
