Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Clinique Veterinaire, June, 1862. 
ON THE NON-CONTAGIOUSNESS OE SPLENIC APOPLEXY 
IN SHEEP. 
By M. Coute, Veterinaire a Elue. 
This paper is a reply to an article on splenic apoplexy in 
the Recueil of November, 1861, by M. Moisant. In the plains 
of Rousillon, says the author, splenic apoplexy (sangderate) is 
enzootic, and commits great ravages during the months of 
June, July, August, and September, and sometimes even in 
October and November, when heat and drought prevail. The 
numerous observations I have made, both on dead and living 
bodies, enable me to speak with some confidence. But if I 
were to describe the hygienic condition's in which our flocks 
are kept, the proximate and immediate causes which provoke 
the appearance of this terrible malady—in a word, all the con¬ 
siderations which bear on the subject—this paper would 
exceed the prescribed limits. I will, therefore, content 
myself by indicating the individual predisposition, the nature 
of the malady, its non-contagiousness, and then furnish the 
reader with a critical analysis of the article by M. Moisant. 
The pathological and cadaveric characters of this malady are 
known by every veterinary surgeon, and even by those who 
have only studied them by reading M. Delafonffs excellent 
descriptions in his treatise on the maladies of sheep. I am 
convinced that the malady described by the learned Director 
of Alfort is identical with that between the districts which 
prevails in Rousillon, notwithstanding the distance and the 
difference of the localities where M. Delafond made his 
laborious and skilful investigations, a greater rapidity in 
the fatal termination of the malady in the cattle of Rousillon, 
with other small and unimportant details, being the only 
variation that has been observed. Individual predisposition, 
is so remarkable that it has been pointed out by every 
observer. It constantly happens that the strongest of the 
flock, those w T hich are moderately fat, aged from one to four 
years, and those which have been put to fatten, are par- 
