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such bodies should never be burled in fields intended for cul- 
tivation, forage, or for pasture. If possible, a sandy or poor 
calcareous soil, dry and readily desiccated, should be selected, 
as it is not suited for earthworms. 
But with all due deference to M. Pasteur, I would urge that, 
whenever and wherever animals die from germ-diseases, they be 
not buried, but burned. This is the only safe procedure with 
contagious maladies, and particularly in countries with rich and 
heavy soils ; it is that which is resorted to by military veterinary 
surgeons in India, in disposing of the carcasses of horses which 
die from that form of anthrax known as " Loodiana Disease " so 
named from the country in Hindostan in which it was first 
noted as most prevalent. 
While we are on this subject of anthrax, it should be mentioned 
that a disease which was, until three or four years ago, con- 
sidered as one of its manifestations, is now distinguished as a 
different malady, but, like it, is due to a microbe capable of arti- 
ficial cultivation, and is then protective from the disease when 
inoculated. I allude to a most fatal disorder of young stock 
with which cattle-breeders in this country and in our colonies 
are only too familiar, and which, among a variety of local names 
more or less peculiar or significant, is perhaps best known as 
" Black Quarter," but which is now technically designated 
" Carbuncular Emphysema, Erysipelas," or " Symptomatic An- 
thrax." It usually attacks the most rapidly thriving of young 
bovines, its onset being remarkably sudden, and its course 
strikingly rapid, the termination being almost invariably fatal. 
The chief symptom is sudden lameness — generally in a hind 
limb, swelling of the quarter from which, if the skin covering it 
is pressed upon, a crackling sound is emitted, due to the disen- 
gagement of gas from the large quantity of dark blood thrown 
out beneath, and which forms such a characteristic feature on 
dissection after death, as to give the disease its familiar name of 
" Black Quarter." 
Incited thereto, probably by Pasteur's example, Arloing and 
Cornevin, Professors at the Lyons Veterinary School, and 
Thomas, a veterinary surgeon at Bassigny, France, have studied 
this malady, known as " Chabert's disease " in that country, and 
have demonstrated that it is very different from anthrax, in that it 
is not communicable by inoculation of the blood, which that dis- 
order most certainly is ; that its microbe is like a large bacillus, 
but moves, and is only found in the affected limb among the 
serum, or deep among the muscles, to the fibres of which it 
adheres so closely that it can only be removed by scraping with 
a sharp knife ; and that this organism, when injected into a vein, 
causes only a slight and brief disturbance of health, whereas the 
