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him, but the gratitude of his colleagues is none the less clue 
to him for all he did for them, and the care, thought, and 
energy he expended on their account in this matter. 
“ If we now examine the share that M. Leblanc took in the 
scientific movement of his time, we shall see that it is con- 
siderable. His proper work is marked by the imprint of 
observation ; it was among his patients that he every day 
gathered together the scattered elements, to publish them 
separately as he acquired them, or collectively, according to 
their affinities, in the Memoirs. 
“To him belongs the merit of having largely contributed to 
the introduction, into veterinary practice, of all the methods 
of observation with which modern science has enriched itself. 
Before his time auscultation, percussion, mensuration, the 
examination of the blood, and the employment of the micro- 
scope, were not resorted to by veterinary surgeons. With 
Delafond, M. Leblanc shares the honour of having initiated 
these new methods and rendered them familiar. There was 
not a new idea produced in science that he did not lay him- 
self out to study, that he did not make the object of ex- 
perimental verification, or that he did not seek to apply to 
the branch of the art he cultivated. Thus it w T as that he 
commenced his researches, experiments, and works on the 
contagiousness of glanders, on iodine injections into serous 
cavities, on the diseases of the heart, on tracheotomy, on the 
cattle plague, on rabies, on the age of anatomical lesions, 
&c. I name these by chance, and abridge the list, for the 
recapitulation of all the subjects of his studies and writings 
would be too long. 
“ There is another merit which must be acknowledged and 
remembered, in order to render that homage to his memory 
which is due to M. Leblanc ; this is the costly abnegation 
with which he placed the means for conducting researches at 
the disposal of experimenters ; rooms, instruments, assistants, 
and even animals for experiment — all he furnished with the 
greatest liberality, only too happy to aid in the advancement 
of science by this disinterested concurrence. 
“Bayer found in him a devoted coadjutor, when, after 
having made the great clinical discovery of the transmissi- 
bility of glanders from the horse to mankind, he furnished 
the experimental proof of this by re-transmitting to the 
equine species the disease that had been contracted by man. 
“ Before Bayer, Trousseau (to cite only the most celebrated) 
owed to the concurrence of M. Leblanc the power of making 
himself known, by the first works which they accomplished 
in common; he found in him not only a coadjutor, but a 
