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lation between the carbuncular or anthracoid fevers of domestic 
cattle and the malignant pustule in man. Such a relation is now 
admitted to be the source of this terrible fatal malady. But in 
reference to the Texas cattle disease, the fact seems well esta- 
blished that it does not produce malignant pustule, and that while 
it corresponds with the destructive epizootic fevers which Profes- 
sor Law has carefully described in the foregoing letter, it never- 
theless seems to differ in some essential points from them. It 
is highly desirable that all the anthracie or carbuncular fevers 
should be studied with the same care and exactness as the Texas 
fever. Professor Law’s statements concerning the actual analogy 
between the Milzbrand of Europe, and the Texas fever, are emi- 
nently suggestive; and we feel greatly obliged-to that learned 
writer for this valuable contribution from his pen. It may yet 
be found that the marshes of Hungary and the swamps of the 
Vistula occasionally produce a disease quite similar to the Texas 
cattle fever. 
Im 9. Abschnitt giebt Herr Professor Harris eine Uebersicht 
iiber die Ergebnisse der Forschung und im 10. die Schlussfolge- 
rungen. Wir theilen beide wegen ihres allgemeinen Interesses 
unverkürzt mit. 
IX. Facts and demonstrations, added to physiological and 
pathological knowledge. 
1) The demonstration of the rapid dissolution of the red 
blood globules in the last stage of the disease and immediately 
after death. This was plainly true in the first cases examined by 
Dr. Stiles; and on the 10th. of August, he remarked that after 
the blood, flowing from the carotids of infected bullocks, had 
stood for a few hours in stoppered vials, scarcely a trace of blood- 
globules could be found, excepting such broken and shrivelled 
as he has described in the first plate of his microscopy of the 
blood. And, while experimenting with a solution of the morbid 
bile from the same diseased bullocks, Dr. Stiles noticed the fact 
that the red globules of the blood were swept into solution al- 
most as suddenly as snow flakes would be when falling into water. 
2) Facts connected with the ultimate reticulum of biliary ducts 
and the morbid changes in the liver and bile. The discovery that 
was made by Dr. Stiles (when working in the field with the 
microscope, on the 13th. of August), of the reticulated structure 
and distribution of the ultimate biliary ducts of the liver, not only 
