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the following manner. To understand this better, it is neces¬ 
sary to know tliat M. Sarrans has in his possession at 
Kieumes a stallion, to which, from the 10th to the 16th, a 
great number of mares had been brought. To prevent acci¬ 
dent from kicking, a side line had been passed over the fet¬ 
lock of the mares, and it is by this means that ^1. Sarrans 
supposes that the malady was propagated. This is a delicate 
question to solve, when it is considered that all these animals 
respired the same air and were under the same external 
influences. 
But now we come to the most interesting part of this report, 
and whieh calls for all our attention. Amongst the num¬ 
ber of those aflPected with this epizootic there was a mare be¬ 
longing to a M. Corail, which furnished the virus for inocula¬ 
tion, of which we are now going to speak. On a journey 
from Rieumes to Toulouse she was found to be dull, and did 
not do her work as usual; seemingly, she suffered in her loins. 
She was therefore taken to the veterinary school for treat¬ 
ment. The next day she was found to be lame, and nearly 
at the same time her hind legs were observed to be swollen, 
particularly the off one. Eight days after, she was brought 
again to the school, being still very dull, and off her appetite. 
She was now lame in both hind legs, but more so in one than 
in the other. Symptoms .—Difficulty in flexion of the fet¬ 
lock ; hot, painful swelling, confined in the left leg to the 
fetlock, but in the other extending'half way up the meta¬ 
tarsus. On this swelling there were seen some patches where 
the hairs were bristled up, and under these hairs were found 
something like pustules, out of which oozed a liquid of an 
ammoniacal odour, though less fluid than the ichor of grease. 
On the 29th the mare was in the infirmary of the school, 
when the professor of the clinique ordered the parts where 
the hairs were raised to be denuded, by which were laid bare 
a number of ulcers. Some were elevated, others depressed, 
but most of them were of a circular form, and about the size 
of a lentil. Some were of the circumference of a fifty-centime 
piece, from which a sero-purulent matter exuded. On the 
30th it was found, for the first time, that the superior and 
inferior lips, on the right side, were also affected with pus¬ 
tules, which were the more easily seen as the parts are bare 
of long hair. They were elevated, with a raised border some¬ 
what less than a centimetre, jagged, through the animal 
having rubbed himself, depressed in the centre, and covered 
with a hard crust, which was strongly adhering. Thus the 
eruption, which was supposed to be confined to the legs, had 
extended to the lips, On the 4th of May the fever had disap- 
