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other two followed their ordinary course. The animals that were 
subjected to experiment could not resist these two affections : they 
fell in marasmus, and were delivered to the knacker on the 1st of 
the following December. 
The experiments were contradictory, but could the negative 
facts destroy the positive ones 1 I think not. 
After all, farcy is not only really contagious with regard to 
animals of the same species, but is it so with regard to the human 
being 1 Some facts, although few in number, attest this trans- 
mission. Those which my co-disciple and friend — M. Vogeli — 
has related in “ The Journal of Veterinary Medicine,” are full of 
truth, and merit the greatest confidence. I have been witness to 
many of them, and especially of the pupil Couderq, and I can say 
that the account which is given of it is an exact resemblance — 
there is nothing added, nothing removed. 
I assisted at the last moments of this unfortunate young man, 
the victim of an accident that removed him so quickly from his 
friends, and from that science to which he promised so much. 
I saw his malady under the most hideous forms, and I must 
say that it presented the same differences with farcy in the horse. 
I was struck with the analogy there was between them — an ana- 
logy which appeared sufficient to induce me to believe that the 
disease of Couderq was the result of the inoculation of farcy. 
SOME REMARKS ON THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF THE 
LIQUOR FERRI OXYDATI HYDRATI ON A DOG THAT 
HAD BEEN POISONED WITH ARSENIC. 
Bij Herr Schmolke, V. S. 
On the 26th of May a small spaniel dog, six months old, was 
sent to me by Herr B — , a builder, with the request that I would 
see what was the matter with it, and, if I found that no good could 
be done, destroy it at once. On attentively observing the animal, 
I saw that about every quarter of an hour it was seized with fright- 
ful spasmodic pains, which seemed to draw its limbs all up together; 
and during these fits it rolled and struggled, bit at any thing near, 
and frequently endeavoured to vomit. 
On my stating it to be my opinion that the dog had been poi- 
soned, the coachman who had brought him recollected that, on the 
preceding day, some arsenic, between pieces of meat and slices 
of bread and butter, had been laid in the cellar for the purpose of 
destroying rats, and told me that it was more than probable that the 
