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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
GLYCOSE IN THE LIVER. 
MM. Poisenille and Lefort conclude that glycose is 
always present in large quantities in the livers of fishes, 
reptiles, birds, and mammalia immediately after death ; and 
that its presence in other parts of the body is only temporary 
and accidental, and results from peculiar physiological con- 
ditions which occasion an unusual production of sugar. If 
these facts are strictly true, they would show that in the 
vertebrata the liver is the only organ which produces the 
sugar. A few days later, however, these gentlemen produce 
another fact before the Academy, which seems to contradict 
their previous position. In this case, analysis showed that 
the chyle and lymph of a bull contained considerably more 
sugar than the blood . — Medical Times, 
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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE, STEPPE MURRAIN, 
OR RINDERPEST. 
By James Beart Simonds, Professor of Cattle Pathology 
in the Royal Veterinary College, London. 
( Continued from page 407.) 
In accordance with this arrangement, in the evening of the 
same day we had the honour to receive the following letter, 
and its several enclosures, two of which we here insert, 
namely, the statistical return of the progress of the disease, 
and the notice which regulates the proceedings of the sanitary 
commission. 
“ 30M April, 1857. 
“ Sir, — I have the honour, according to my promise, to send you a 
letter for the Kreishauptman of Jaslo, and another for Count Gotachowski, 
at Lemberg. I think it proper to join one more addressed to the Kreishaupt- 
man of Tarnow (the place where you are to leave the railroad), in case you 
should need any assistance relating to your further journey. I send you 
also the papers we have spoken of. 
“I am, &c., 
“ Clam Martinitz. 
“ J. B. Simonds , Esq.” 
