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surgeons, M. Hugues my predecessor, and M. Dubuisson, Y. S. at 
Chateau Thierry, came to give me their assistance and confirm my 
diagnostic. And it was in face of these proofs and these testi- 
monies that M. Cerveau maintained that we had failed to recog- 
nise a putrid or typhous fever ! ! 
We submit the case to human and veterinary surgeons, and all 
men of sense; let them judge between us. As for the shepherd, 
let us suppose for an instant that he died of malignant pustules. 
Is it to say that it was created in him by the disease which deci- 
mated the flock 1 Not only is there nothing to authorise us to 
admit this, but on the contrary ; for there, at M. Tartarin’s, other 
individuals already referred to had exposed themselves equally 
as much as this shepherd to the influences of the disease. Besides, 
at least a hundred shepherds have bled and looked after animals 
attacked with the same evil, have skinned the carcasses both before 
and after the blood has become coagulated, and not one of them, 
that I ever heard, has suffered the slightest inconvenience. 
M. de Gasparin, after having demonstrated the non-contagion of 
the disease of the blood which he calls internal typhus, and 
inquired of himself “ if there exists in the blood, in the skin, 
in the flesh, of the animal any deleterious principle which is 
capable of infecting men or animals that touch it, flay it, or come 
other vvise in contact with it,” replies in these terms : “ A pretty 
considerable number of cases of this nature are related of the other 
varieties of typhus, but none appertaining to internal typhus, 
to gastro-enteritis without eruption. Shepherds, knackers, and 
slaughter-men, daily skin and cut up sheep and horses that have 
died of this disease : the carcasses are constantly given to the dogs. 
Our veterinary surgeons plunge their hands and arms into the bodies 
of the dead animals while opening and examining them, and no 
evil consequence ever ensues.” 
The talented Professor of Alfort, in his “ Traite de la Maladie 
de Sang de la Beauce ,” says : “I have not seen one single case of 
contagion during my sojourn at Beauce. The veterinarians whom 
I have interrogated on this important point have all replied to me 
in the negative; and the shepherds take no precautions when 
skinning the carcasses.” 
After this slight digression, which we have deemed requisite in 
order to support our opinion by two such high authorities on this 
point, we will return to M. Tartarin’s shepherd. 
This case, the validity of which we dispute, if it had been well 
established and published with all the guarantees of close and 
attentive observation, still would not have authorised us to believe 
in the contagion, and could not have prevailed over the thousand 
contrary and negative facts so well known. Might not some in- 
