ANTHRAX, CHICKEN-CHOLERA, ROUGET 63 



Then, in 1880, came his work on chicken-cholera. 

 For want of room here, many great events of 

 1880-84 must be left out. His prophetic note in 

 April, 1880, on the bacterial nature of plague ; his 

 address at the Academic de Me'decine, in October, 

 1880, on vaccinia and variola ; the beginning, in 

 December, 1880, of his work on rabies ; his presence 

 at the International Medical Congress in London, 

 in August, 1881 : his visit to Bordeaux, next month, 

 in the vain hope of finding yellow fever to be 

 studied there. In 1882, his reception by Renan, 

 on April 27, into the Academic Franchise ; his 

 researches into pleuro-pneumonia of cattle; his 

 controversy with Koch, in September, at the Inter- 

 national Congress of Hygiene in Geneva. In 1883, 

 the debate, in the Academic de Medecine, on 

 typhoid fever; the increase of the Government 

 grant to him from 12 to 25 thousand francs ; and 

 the despatch of the French cholera expedition to 

 Egypt. In April, 1884, his presence at the Ter- 

 centenary Festival of Edinburgh University, and, 

 in August, at the International Medical Congress 

 in Copenhagen. These events are well known to 

 all students of his life. Here, we must keep to the 

 line of his researches on anthrax, chicken-cholera, 

 and rouget. 



It was the work on chicken-cholera which led 

 him to the greatest of all his discoveries. See 



