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this malady as well as man, but also it is of great interest in 
a double point of view, inasmuch as it has been announced 
that saccharine diabetes either depends on an affection of the 
nervous system or the glucogenic function and the reab¬ 
sorption of fat. With a view to elucidate these questions 
the author has instituted some experiments, the results of 
which, if worthy of the attention of the members of the 
Academy, he would be happy to lay before them at a future 
time. At the same time he thinks it necessary to announce 
to them that he has already had one animal under operation, 
viz., a dog, and, although old, he was in good health, the urine 
small in quantity and thick, but it contained evident traces 
of glucose before the experiment. On the 2d of this month, 
assisted by M. Derache, he made an opening in the cranium 
of this animal, through which he plunged a thick wire into 
one of the occipital lobes of the brain nearly to the hippo¬ 
campi. Forty-eight hours after the animal was sacrificed, 
and the autopsy was made immediately afterwards, when 
most of the viscera were found healthy, and even the brain, 
except the part which had been penetrated by the wire. 
This was softened, and contained some extravasated blood. 
The liver was somewhat atrophied, and entirely stearosed; 
the kidneys presented, on their exterior, the usual normal 
appearance, but were found to be penetrated with fatty 
matter to about two thirds of their cortical substance. In 
'their medullary substance there was no alteration. The 
blood, the urine, the liver, and the kidneys, were analysed by 
M. Dewilde, who found a notable quantity of glucose in the 
liver and urine, and only traces of it in the blood and kidneys. 
This fact agrees, the author states, with the observations 
which were communicated to the Academy in 1852, by M. 
Dechambre, relating to the presence of sugar in the urine of 
old people, and he shows in his observations that, as in the 
case of the bitch, and contrary to the opinion of M. Colin, 
the formation of glucose does not result from the reabsorption 
of fat, but that these two hydro-carbonaceous substances may 
appear at the same time in large quantities in the animal 
organism, being undoubtedly consequent on a more or less 
considerable weakening of the respiratory combustion in old 
age ; the same as in certain maladies which have their seat in 
the lungs, or those parts which are intimately connected with 
them. Finally, as in the experiments of M. Reynoso, made 
with a view to produce the suspension or the suppression of 
haematose, by eetherization, asphyxia, submersion, &c., con¬ 
sequent upon which the urine has become saccharine. 
The author had terminated his labours when, on the 5th 
