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It was a grave mistake \yhicli, in *"ffiie early days o£ pleuro-pneumonia j • Aifctr^lifc, i Jett. the owners of cattle to set their faces against * 4n»cttlati©fr as- a pi'eventfvefthmigh perhaps a najburaL ,pne r considering how little the real nature of the disea.se _ was understood, even by ffctelftnary at that period of its history. TJhe best authorises now are in favor of not- regarding it as a local disease, originating in, and confined to, the lungs and pleurae. It may indeed never reach the second or third stage and affect the lungs, but exhaust itself in the first or febrile stage; and it is on this fact that the efficacy of inocu lation is basted. Nor were Austra lian stock-owners alone in their ■prejudice. iThe highest veterinary authorities at home had, previous td the introduction of pleuro-pneu monia into Victoria in 1858, been divided in opinion on this matter. Professor Garagee, than whom there is no higher authority, was for some time opposed to inoculation, and his earlier enunciations are sometimes ijupted by its opponents now, for getful of the fact that for many years past no stronger advocate among scientific men for its practice pan 'be ' found. Mr Priestman, another grea^ authority, is referred ijp l>y/ Cjfciief Inspector Bruce in his Report >to the, New South Wales -Government on this disease. Mr Prfestnian was a veterinary surgeon haying ,a large practice in London, and he too was at one time opposed to the operation, and only com menced it when he found that his ordinary practice, which had been principally among dairy cows affected with pleuro-pneumonia, was leaving him through the dairymen inocu lating their cows and thus saving them from infection. 