Punch,  63 (1872), 144.

Scientific Jotting

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Animal Husbandry, Disease, Pollution, Analytical Chemistry


    Announces that a chemist has claimed that cattle disease is caused by a 'noxious principle' in the atmosphere which also causes the 'Strike epidemic'. Adds that the 'principle' is imponderable and only detectable by its effects on 'unthinking creatures'.



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