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Excerpt from Report on Murrain in Horned Cattle, the Public Sale of Diseased Animals, and the Effects of the Consumption of Their Flesh on Human Health: Addressed to the Right Honourable the President of the General Board of Health
The inquiry entrusted to me was thus of a twofold character its first and most important object being the investigation of a matter which, both for the already recited reasons, and on account of the possible relations between the causes of disease in cattle and in the human subject, was of intimate interest to the public health. Secondarily to this, the inquiry was important under an economical and agricultural aspect supposing the murrain at present prevailing on the Continent to be both contagious and different from the disease recently existing in London. The pos sible introduction of a new murrain from abroad into the herds of this country was evidently a question of great importance alike to the consumer and producer of meat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
