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body, it assures, on the contrary, health all but unchange- 
able. Physiologically speaking, however, it is thought that 
retrenching the genital organ, or paralysing its function, leads 
to the same result. Man becomes melancholic ; and so we 
must expect the animal’s ardour likewise to decrease. — 
Recueil de Mecl. Ret., Juittet , 1852. 
ON COW-POX, OR PRIMITIVE VACCINA. 
By M. Garreau. 
From cases and experiments that have come under the ob- 
servation of M. Garreau, he has come to the deductions, 1st, 
that persons, who have had either the smallpox or cow-pox, 
submitted to the influence of the virulent lymph of the pox 
of the cow, as readily contract one or more vaccine pustules as 
persons who have never had either smallpox or cow-pox ; and 
2dly, that human medicine ought not to rely too much on 
primitive vaccina, either as a producer of cow-pox, or a pre- 
server against human variola or smallpox. Hence he has 
been led to the conclusions — 
1. That cow-pox, considered as the primitive source of 
vaccina, is nothing but a pure invention of man. 2. That 
Jenner inoculated nothing but the smallpox. And 3. 
That in regard to primitive vaccina or cow-pox, it has never 
served to protect man from variola or cow-pox. Which 
strange conclusions, M. Bouley observes, are in contradiction 
to the entire history of vaccination, and might, on that ground, 
be readily overturned . — Recueil de Med Vet. d’Aout , 1852. 
ON A CASE OF ACUTE GLANDERS (IN MAN) OF 
SPONTANEOUS ORIGIN. 
By M. Teissier, Physician of the IIotel-Dieu of Lyons. 
If the transmission of acute glanders from Solipedes to 
man be an admitted fact ; if even the transmission of the 
same disease from man to man be admitted as possible, 
as appeared to be the case with the medical student who 
died from dressing a patient affected with glanders in the 
