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twelve hours after. While it is not absolutely certain that 

 Desplas's cases were gangrenous septicsemia, the report is 

 no less interesting, in that it should have been left ignored 

 during these numerous years. It is not until 1884 that 

 Biot, of Pont-sur-Yonne again attracted attention to the 

 possibility of cattle dying from gangrenous septicaemia, 

 affirming what is now a contradiction of the researches of 

 Chauveau and Airloing. 



He reported the history of a bovine animal that suc- 

 cOmbed to septic complications, resulting from the lancing 

 of a large sanguineous sac. Unfortunately Biot's observa- 

 tion lacks a bacteriological confirmation. In 1889, M. 

 Nocard, in a communication to the Societe Centrale, 

 aftirms having found the bacillus septicus in muscular tum- 

 ors of cattle. During the same period the Germans were 

 more advanced than us, on the subject. Since 1884, Kitt 

 conveyed gaseous gangrene to the various domestic species 

 and has observed it in the horse and ox. Attinger reported 

 that he had seen eleven cases of malignant cedema during 

 the years 1889-1890. The disease appeared at all seasons 

 of the year and struck all of the animals during a year and 

 a half. In one case the infection resulted from an abscess 

 of the pharyngeal lymphatics. During the following year, 

 Reuter, (1896) wrote of a case of malignant oedema in the 

 ox, that recovered spontaneously. He insisted upon the 

 similarity of gaseous gangrene and symptomatic anthrax. 

 Home published, some time later, an observation on f®ur 

 cases that were sustained by bacteriological examination 

 and inoculation. In his statistics of diseases of large ani- 

 mals, Eberhardt, gave the following repetition of the cases 

 of malignant oedema he was able to observe : 



In the year 1888 2 cases 



In the year 1889 o case 



In the year 1890 i case 



