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but in no place more distant than three-fourths of an inch from 
each other. 
Durinof the nio^ht of the 26th and on the 27th these buttons 
became white in their centre ; and some of them formed into ab¬ 
scesses, containing thick flocculent pus, mixed with slight striae 
of blood. The poor patient, in his delirium, spoke of nothing 
but his horse, and with even more exactness than at first. He 
seemed to suffer more from the tumours on the eyelids than 
from any of the others, for he imagined that they were effecting 
some strange change in him, and he had occasionally harboured 
that idea from the very beginning. 
On the nip:ht of the 27th he fancied that he had returned to 
his native soil, and about seven in the morning my poor fellow- 
student ceased to live. 
I continued to watch over him; and I do not know whether it 
was an illusion of my senses, or an actual fact, but more of the 
tumours seemed to whiten, and others increased in size for two 
hours after his death ; and, after that, I observed many more of 
these buttons on the back and loins and thighs, but they were 
much smaller than any of the others. 
CASE V. 
M. G., a pupil from L’Ardiche, wounded himself in the fore 
finger of the right hand, some time in the month of July 1830, 
when performing, for the sake of practice, some operations on a 
farcied horse. Disorders, but less serious than those of Cases I 
and III, followed. I quitted the school at the end of August, and 
thus lost sight of him ; but I met with him in January 1831, still 
in the infirmary, and in June 1833 with the wound m his finger 
unhealed. 
I do not know whether these facts are conclusive, but, at least, 
they are true; and the whole of the fourth case passed under 
my own observation. 
This is an exceedingly interesting paper, and reflects the highest 
credit on M. Vogeli. He who, bravino; all dano;er from conta- 
gion, and under so dreadful a form, remained at the bed-side of his 
unfortunate friend, when every one besides had fled, will ever 
stand high in the estimation of his fellow-rnen. The destructive 
agency of these animal poisons is too well known, and the ac¬ 
count ol poor Coudeixj bears considerable resemblance to the his¬ 
tory of those who have perished from the infliction of slight wounds 
in the dissection of subjects that had not died of any recognized 
contagious disease. M. Vogeli’s point is not, in our mind, 
proved—the identity of disease, the cornmunicahleness of farei/. 
Some of our British veterinarians may have cases in point.—Y. 
