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closed and weeping, particularly that on the left side; its walk 
was unsteady, it ate but slowly, and was indifferent to sur¬ 
rounding objects. On the 21st, this state was aggravated. 
The animal was found lying down, resting on the sternum ; 
the body was inclined to the right, and was only prevented 
from falling by the wall. The neck v\ as bent in such a man¬ 
ner, that the head rested on the left shoulder, the hair of which 
was wet with tears; it refused all food, but, at times, still 
ruminated. In attempting to make it get up, it could only 
rise on its knees. With assistance, it was got upon its legs, 
and it then could only be made to walk two or three steps 
with the greatest difficulty, after which it fell on its knees 
again, and turned over on its right side. 
On the 22d, these symptoms were so much aggravated, 
that it was easy to foresee that death would speedily put an 
end to its sufferings, and this occurred on the morning of 
the 23rd. 
On the autopsia, 24 vesicles were found in the brain, the 
smallest of which were the size of a pea, the largest that of 
a cherry. Of these, five, which were perhaps on the surface 
of the brain, became detached the moment the coverings of 
that organ were removed, without being able to determine their 
exact situation. Eight existed in the right lobe, nine in the 
left, and these were all deeply seated in the substance of the 
brain. Of the two others, one was situated on one of the tuber¬ 
cles of the corpora quadrigemina on the right side, the 
other was partly enclosed in the middle lobe of the cerebellum, 
and partly extended forward. These vesicles, which were 
deep-seated, had made small depressions in the nervous sub¬ 
stance, at the bottom of which is almost always found a small 
infundibulum of almost a cone-shape. This seemed to be 
formed by the condensation of the nervous substance. 
IV. —Experiments on Adult Animals. 
To perfect as much as possible these researches, two adult 
animals were submitted to experiment. One was a he goat, 
seven years old. At different times more than 800 pro¬ 
glottides were given to him, taken from the dog Rigolette, ancl 
the young dogs which were destroyed on the 21st of May, 
and also from the one that w T as still alive; but his health has 
not undergone the least change. 
The other animal was an old cow^, wdiich at three different 
times took 100 proglottides obtained from the same sources. 
She also did not show the slightest symptoms of vertigo. 
She w r as killed on the 23d of June, but no traces of disease 
w r ere found in the brain. It might have been presumed 
that these animals would insist this sort of verminous in- 
