TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 315 
latter at the Tribandiere (Loir et Cher). The neighbour¬ 
hood took alarm at this, the more so as the shepherds left 
the carcasses of the sheep lying about. M. Rogers had to 
appear before the tribunal of the correctional police, and 
was condemned to pay a fine, and to take his flock back to 
Tusne. Everything had subsided, when the sheep of M. Joseph 
were attacked by the same fatal malady at Chamblais, and, as 
proprietor of the land, he sent his affected flock to Drone, 
without the slightest regard to the well-grounded complaints 
of the farmers. This caused a fresh complaint to be addressed 
to the procureur of Vendome by M. Clousier, who, mean¬ 
while, lost a cow, the autopsy of which proved that she had 
been affected with splenic apoplexy. Having received an 
order from the Procureur Imperial to make a circumstantial 
report on these facts, impressed by the importance of the 
object, I immediately set about fulfilling it. I found at the 
Tribandiere a flock of sheep, of about 230 head. The shep¬ 
herd informed me that twelve had died before they quitted 
Chamblais, and nine had died since their arrival, from the 
SIst of August to the 16 th of September, the day of my 
visit. The autopsy of two carcasses revealed an absolute 
identity in the lesions with those found in the cow’ of M. 
Clousier; but instead of declaring that the flock had brought 
the infection, and was the cause of the death of the cow, I 
contented myself by expressing my fears that this might 
have been the case. This was an excess of prudence, for 
there was enough for a contagionist of tw 7 enty years’ standing 
to pronounce upon with certainty. The debris of the dead 
sheep lay in every direction in the field, as stated in the police 
report, contiguous to the pastures of M. Clousier. There had 
also been direct communication between the two flocks, and, 
moreover, I had in my favour the opinion of many practi¬ 
tioners, of great reputation, on the subject of contagion. 
Amongst others, that of my late father, who was in favour of 
this mode of contagion, and also of my worthy colleague of 
Chateauneuf. 
tf M. Moisanfc and myself were one day called to a consulta¬ 
tion at M. Martin’s, farmer, at Arrou, whose farm was at the 
time laid w 7 aste by splenic apoplexy amongst his sheep and 
neat cattle, and also the carbon amongst his horses. My 
colleague did not hesitate to declare that the contagion arose 
from the emanations of the skins of some sheep which were 
hung up to dry in a shed. He recommended that these 
should be buried. M. Martin had confidence in this con¬ 
sultation and acted accordingly, and is now zealous in its 
favour, in spite of the new r views of his advocate. On 
