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countries, the attempt to render conviction stronger may appear 

 superfluous ; but when, even in 1832, we find Parent Du Cha- 

 telet, in a report made to the Academy at Paris, maintain that 

 " none of the supposed infectious diseases of animals exercised 

 an unfavourable influence on the health of man ;" when further, 

 in a widely perused journal published in this city, * we find a 

 practical physician, Dr Kriiger Hansen, in examining Wolff''s 

 proposition above mentioned, denying the existence of infection 

 from glanders in general, and its pernicious effects on man in 

 particular, and in pretty plain terms attributing all the bad con- 

 sequences which arises from such infection to inaccurate dia- 

 gnosis and bad practice ; finally, when we perpend the truth and 

 importance of Goethe's words, '' that the truth must be con- 

 stantly repeated, because error is preached upon every side, not 

 only by individuals, but also by the mass of mankind," it be- 

 comes our duty not to hold back any communication, however 

 trifling, calculated to banish a pernicious confidence, and to con- 

 tribute to the knowledge and treatment of an animal jX)ison, 

 which, though seldom observed, still, when it once occurs, whe- 

 ther openly or in a latent form, threatens the most alarming con- 

 sequences to human life. These considerations have induced 

 me to pubhsh the preceding observations. 



Dr Eck gives an account of severe cases of disease conse- 

 quent on actual or supposed infection from glanders ; and in 

 VolumeSth of the Transactions of the Provincial Medical and 

 Surgical Association, there is a case of glanders in the human 

 subject.t 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



ZOOLOGY. 



1. The European Bison ; Bos urns ; the Boexvf Aurochs of 

 the French.— At a meeting of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences at Petersburg in autumn last, M. Baer'read some 

 observations upon the above named animal, which were sug- 

 gested by the reception of a skin, which had been sent to the 



" Gnife and Walther's Journal, band. 23, heft 1, s. 58. 



t Vide Dublin Medical Journal, vol. xii . for Dr Eck's cases. 



