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cination generally, and as regards the city of Bombay, particularly, and that it would
also prove very valuable in carrying out the provisions of the proposed Vaccination
Act. Mr. Crawford was pleased to give a prompt response by at once sanctioning the
proposal as an experiment. Animal vaccination was thus, for a time at least, secured
on a reliable basis- We received in all some fourteen heifers from the Municipality, of
whom two had to be returned as useless, on account of their suffering from some erup-
tion of the skin of the part to be operated upon. The inoculation in some of the
last heifers supplied by the Municipality proved unsuccessful. A spurious sort of
eruption did follow the operation ; but heifers inoculated, and children vaccinated
with the lymph obtained from them both proved unsuccessful, thus materially in-
creasing the total of failures for the year. Though the supply of heifers from the
Municipality rendered us perfectly independent, I never slackened my exertions
in procuring heifers from private sources, either gratis or for a money considera-
tion ; and, as the result proved, it was as well that I did so, for when several of the
Municipal heifers failed, not a single heifer of the fourteen that I obtained from private
sources proved unsuccessful. I was thus enabled to keep our animal vaccine virus
in an excellent condition up to the end of the year. From the 9th December 1869
to the 31st March 1870, there were in all twenty heifers inoculated. Of these fourteen
belonged to private individuals, five of which only were paid for—three at Rs. 2 each,
and two at Rs. 3. In every one of them the operation was perfectly successful, and
children vaccinated therefrom gave very satisfactory results. The remaining twelve
were supplied by the Municipality, of which several had failed. What could be the
cause of this considerable amount of failure in the animals supplied by the Municipality
I am not in a position satisfactorily to answer; some of them had an eruption on
the skin, and some had urticarious blebs at the time of the removal of the hair from
the abdomen near the udder. Animal vaccination is thus an established fact in
Bombay. It has proved as completely successful as it has ever been known to do in
other parts of the world, nor can it be called a mere experiment: for that cannot
come under the category of an experiment which is acknowledged as an established
national institution by some of the greatest and most enlightened States of Europe.
Animal vaccination, I must repeat, is now well established in Bombay. It has proved
successful beyond the most sanguine expectations entertained of it. The operations
performed on human subjects with animal vaccine lymph have been very successful,
and the resulting vesicles in every way perfect. During a professional career of some
twenty years I must have vaccinated thousands and thousands of persons, and have
carefully observed the results in many, and in not a few the vesicles were really very
good ; but never had I witnessed such splendid results before as were obtained from
the use of animal vaccine lymph—the vesicles invariably of the genuine Jennerian type,
large and well developed, and this even after the most minute puncture in the skin ;
the skin around the vesicle to a considerable extent swollen ; the areola more distinct
and extensive ; the constitutional sympathy more pronounced ; the course ran extremely
regular; the scab, if undisturbed, more massive and well formed ; and a compact and
condensed store of excellent lymph for further operations in the vesicles and the scar,
left after the separation of the scab, having all the qualities of a characteristic vaccine