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GEORGE FLEMING. 
have been sustained, the appointment of new professors and lec¬ 
turers, men of known ability in their specialties, will well fill the 
places of those who, by unavoidable circumstances, have separated 
from the institution ; and, if we can judge by the attendance pres¬ 
ent, the officers of the college will have no reason to be dissatisfied 
by the success of the season of 1880-81. 
HUMAN AND ANIMAL VARIOLA: A STUDY IN COM¬ 
PARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
By George Fleming, F.R.C.V.S., Army Veterinary Inspector. 
(From the Veterinary Journal , London , England.) 
(Continued from p. 292). 
T have alluded to the experiments carried on in Italy from 
1871 to 1874, with a view to decide the question as to the value 
of animal and humanized vaccine. On referring to the report,* 
I find the Commission was composed of a President and five mem¬ 
bers of the medical profession, one of whom was Professor Bassi, 
a very distinguished teacher in the Turin Royal Veterinary 
School, and a Secretary. Permission was given to make use of 
the cattle on the royal farm at Turin; and the children in the 
Foundling Hospital, as well as the soldiers of the garrison, were 
made available in these experiments. Sixty-one cattle—chiefly 
cow-calves and heifers—were utilized, and the inoculations were 
made by puncture and incision, chiefly on the udder, seldom on 
the labia of the vagina. One side was, in most cases, inoculated 
with animal, the other with humanized lymph. This lymph was 
either that of natural cow-pox, artificial cow-pox (transmitted from 
cow to cow), humanized vaccine transferred to the cow ; lymph 
transferred from arm to arm; or horse-pox, from a natural out¬ 
break of the disease in horses. 
# Esperienze Comparative sul Vaccino Animate e Bull’Umauizato. Relazione 
Commiesione, etc. Torino, 1874. 
