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Hence in A it is first necessary to procure bile

from animals which have died from the disease, in B the

inoculation to be a success must cause a certain amount

of sickness (possibly death) to the animal, for which

reason it is hardly a system likely to be favoured by the

Chinese, while in C the method would probably be productive

of good results, and meet without little opposition from

the natives when they once became used to it.

To illustrate the action of the third

process C I give the following examples. 1. An outbreak of

rinderpest occurs in a herd of say twenty animals. Two

show distinct signs of the disease. Inoculate the whole

herd at once with serum. The eighteen will not contract

time

the disease if not infected at the of inoculation, and

the remaining two infected ones, if taken in time might

also be cured. 2. A second herd of twenty healthy animals

may be housed in close proximity to the infected

herd- inoculate all those at once with serum and they

would be protected.

(Sd.) C.V.Ladds.

14/3/1900.