Our Sydney ooiretpondent writes ;— Dr. Ashbnrton Thomson, President of the Board of Health, has let the oat out of tne bag in regard to Inoculation for anthrax. It kills, he says, about 5 per cent of the sheep opeiated upon. It follows that between those which are fatally affected and those whloh recover tbeie must be earner one animals in ail stages of the diseaae. Yet the Government' aaanred a qnestlonei that the sale of the flssh ot theie animali Involves no danger to the pnbllo health, It follows, therefore, that while the pretence of the disease In the oidtnary way Is held to warrant the lalslDg of no end of soare that whloh Is produced artificially bj Inoculation needs not be feared. Whlol Is nineteenth century " medlolne " t> taxtltit Some lnoaulators stonily denj that they kill any of the sheep. The] may die after the lnooulatlon, but It li always something elie whloh killed them If they bad died without lnoonlatlon thel death would have been aeoilbed to thi laok of the maglo rite. I need hardly as; that an age which believes that It cai Induce health by laaouJatlng dlseas ongbt not to find any really serious dlffi cnlty In believing anything. With apologies to Wilson Barrett:—" Some thine <s out ot order with thee, Marcus I It the heart or a heavy cold ? If the forme) send for the woman ; If ihe latter, send fo Woods' Great Peppermint Care I One of I h greatest discoveries ot the age not th woman, bat the care. Ie never falls; woman mar. This Is a pearl of a fact cas before sensible people. Rend, mark, loan and inwardly proflu thereby. Bold ever: where.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11045, 14 October 1898, Page 3
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284Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11045, 14 October 1898, Page 3
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