This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... not succeed one time in ten. With the vaccine obtained from New York I was successful almost every time. Now, my opinion is that this is on account of the large demand for bovine vaccine recently. This year and last they have not been as careful as they might have been in selecting their animals, or in choosing the time for removing the virus. Again, our retail dealers and druggists, selling it to us, have not been careful in selling us fresh material. Dr. Beckwith, of Ohio.--Mr. President, it cannot be denied that there has been, within the last year, a growing feeling among the people and among the profession that bovine virus does not accomplish what it has in years gone by. For thirty years I have used bovine virus in my practice, more or less, and for the first fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty years I used humanized virus; occasionally we had bad effects, in the form of erysipelas, and other similar troubles, but nothing that ever assumed a dangerous character; and I can say the same with reference to bovine virus, except within the last year or two, when the symptoms have been more severe, and almost gangrenous. But there is some cause for this. There has been a great demand for bovine virus. Telegrams have come from all over the world to forward vaccine virus, and the propagators, like other men, anxious to make money, have sent out spurious material, or they have taken less pains, and sent out among physicians, quills that contained pus instead of lymph, and the result is ulcers and gangrenous sores. Now this is a great evil, and must be met. The people live in an age that demands the reason and cause for everything, and they will demand the reason for this. They must be protected, and they demand pure virus. Now, how can this be done? Simply in thi...