Professor Gamgee has been explaining to the dairymen of London,
at the Marylebone Institute, how dangerous the milk is taken from cows suffering from disease of the lungs (pneumonia), and how important it is to take every security to keep off pneu- monia. He thinks inoculation will alleviate the inflammation of the lungs in cows as vaccination does small-pox with men, though not by any means to the same extent. The dairymen afterwards conversed with the lecturer on the subject, and expressed their belief that the disease was a country disease imported into town,— the cows naturally breathing with difficulty in a pure atmosphere. One of the speakers said that pneumonia in cows was incurable, " having descended from the time of Job." We do not know his authority for this statement, and can find no reference to the prevalence of disease amongst Job's cows or to pneumonic milk in his wife's dairy ; but if it were so, why incurable? Does the dairyman think that boils are incurable because Job suffered from them?
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