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contact with animals attacked by the blood, — would they not have 
been attacked with typhus, if these animals had been submitted 
to the action of a charbonnous virus] Let us be told of one victim, 
only one; we shall view him with suspicion whoever he be : not 
but that in the course of our practice we have met with a case 
that made a great deal of noise in the country at the time, 
and that has been cited in contradiction of the opinion we are 
here defending. We will relate this case, and examine into its 
validity. 
In the summer of 1840, after having passed several days and 
nights in watching over his flock, M. Tartarm’s shepherd fell ill. 
A tumefaction made its appearance on the face. A country sur- 
geon, M. Cerveau, being called in to him, thought, as we are 
informed, that he recognised a malignant pustule; and all the treat- 
ment he prescribed was emollient embrocations and drinks com- 
posed of violets, gum, and barley water. Two days passed away. 
The surgeon was again sent for, and, being less timid now than on 
his first visit, he operated on the face with knife and cautery. The 
tumefaction increased, and extended itself to the neck. A few days 
afterwards the patient died. From that time all the blame was 
thrown upon the ignorance and carelessness of the veterinary sur- 
geon (we wish that no one had deserved it more than he did). 
The shepherd was said to have been attacked with malignant pus- 
tular disease because his flock had the typhus. An alarm was 
spread throughout the whole country ; the mayor and the sous - 
prefet were informed of the occurrence; they were on the point of 
sending to Paris to request that some commissioners might be 
delegated from the Veterinary School to study this fearful char- 
bonnous disease. Book in hand, M. Cerveau, guided by what had 
been told him respecting the symptoms presented by our diseased 
sheep, endeavoured, after having victoriously proved it to M. 
Tartarin, to convince us that they were labouring under putrid 
fever. 
Although we are willing to believe that the opinion of M. Cer- 
veau would on a point of human medicine have some weight in 
the eyes of his colleagues, yet, notwithstanding the close affinity 
that exists between the two branches of medical science, he must 
have the goodness to permit us to dispute his competence and his 
authority on a point of veterinary medicine, and especially on the 
one in question. 
The disease that had attacked the flock belonging to M. Tar- 
tarin, of Sergis, was that disease of the blood which we have seen 
elsewhere, and the history of which we are now giving. There we 
examined the carcasses; and we there, we ourselves, saw and atten- 
tively observed our patients. Besides, two experienced veterinary 
