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![calf appears to take about three-quarters of an hour. To the pultaceous mass contained in the crucible there is added about an equal quantity of glycerine which was described to us as 6 doubly rectified,’ but which appeared to be of very thin consistence as compared with the best Eng-lish glycerine. No accurate measurement of the quantities employed is made. The mixture of pulp and glycerine is triturated in a mixing machine devised by Dr. Chalybaus, of Dresden ; the particular one that we saw being driven by a small electric motor. The mixture, having thus been rendered thin and homogeneous, is received in a clean sterilised nickel crucible placed beneath the machine, but with a view of still further improving its appear- ance and of removing any extraneous matters, such as hairs, it is afterwards pressed through a small brass-wire sieve consisting of extremely fine gauze into an agate mortar. This is done by means of a bone spoon, and there is left on the surface of the gauze nothing but a very small quantity of epithelial tissue together with a few hairs. The mixture is further triturated in the mortar with an agate pestle, and is then ready for filling into the tubes in which it is distributed.” ( Vaccn. Inquirer, February, i8g8, p. i4g). The Editor of the Vaccination Inquirer comments thus :—We here see that this glycerinating does nothing to get rid of the objectionable features peculiar to calf-vaccination. The squeezing out with clamps of this bestial “ mixture of lymph, epithelial tissue [skin] and blood,” in a “pultaceous mass” is as savoury and appetising a process as ever. And his credulity must border on sheer insanity who will accept any man’s assurance that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24975953_0135.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
