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any defect I found in the lymph itself, or any inferiority it seemed to me to possess
over the lymph I have seen in use in other Circles; but did so merely in conformity
with a firm conviction I hold of its protective properties being capable of deterioration
by being too humanized. Indeed the vesicles I saw here were just as good and as
characteristic as any I had previously seen resulting from the use of human lymph ;
and the lymph they contained appeared to me so pure and good that I should have been
loth to replace it had I not been so thoroughly satisfied as I am of the superiority of
that recent from the heifer.
11. In asking for animals for inoculation I at first found some difficulty in ob-
taining them, as the owners required some remuneration for the loan of them, and 1
had no funds at my disposal for the purpose. On bringing this matter to the notice
of Mr. Jervoise, Agent to the Governor Punch Mahals, he readily assented to give
me every aid from the Local Funds, and placed at once at my command Rs. 100 from
that source to meet any expenditure that might occur consequent on the introduction
of animal vaccination. This sum has been quite sufficient to meet all the require-
ments under that head ; and has enabled me, so far, to renew all the lymph in use
in the circle, besides leaving a good balance to meet future contingencies of a similar
nature.
12. I do not intend entering into a full and detailed description of the manner
in which I performed the inoculations on the different calves I selected for that pur-
pose, as such a description would entail an amount of unbecoming egotism without
serving any practical end. Suffice it to say that I performed the operations, without
the slightest variation, after the method which I learned from Dr. Blanc, Superinten-
dent of the Western Circle, in Poona, last rains, who also kindly sent me on application
a supply of animal lymph to commence work with. Since I performed the first in-
oculation in the month of October last, I have kept up the supply of lymph steadily,
with some few breaks, of longer or shorter intervals, during which time tubes were
kept, charged from the vesicles on the last inoculated calf, up to the present time. All
my inoculations have not, however, been successes, far from it; neither have the vac-
cinations I performed, from what appeared on the heifer rich, first class vesicles,
proved effective in every instance. The uncertainty of the effects of the lymph in
many cases was, to say the least of it, embarrassing, the more so because unaccountable.
One instance of this uncertainty was so remarkable that I must relate the details of it
here, even in face of the resolution I have just stated of excluding all such details from
this report. At Rampoor, in the Soonth State, I vaccinated 11 children from a calf
1 brought on with me from Jhallode, making two points on either arm of each child,
thus giving altogether 44 points on the 11 children. The vesicles on the calf were
good, and gave to all appearance every promise of the vaccinations being successful.
Such was not the case, however, for on the 10th day only one vesicle appeared where
I expected to find 44; and on the remaining 43 points, all of which I carefully ex-
amined, there was in no single instance the slightest approach to the formation of