250 translations from continental journals. 
that one had been sent to M. Lafosse at Toulouse. On the 
28th of June, in a letter addressed to M. Renault and read 
before this Academy, it was stated that two heifers had 
been inoculated by the matter of grease, and that genuine 
pustules of cowpox had been the result. M. Leblanc at 
once departed for Toulouse to inquire into the fact, and 
he has declared here that the affection which was observed 
in the horses of Toulouse was not grease. 
In the report of Bousquet, we have to deal with two 
memoirs; one of M. Cayrel, which I lay on one side, and one 
of M. Lafosse, the only one which is of interest to us, for we 
want to know' but one thing, and that is the origin of 
cowpox. I regret that no more experiments have been 
made than were instituted; there were more than one 
hundred sick horses, and there w'ere only one or two heifers 
inoculated, and one only of the sick horses was selected. More¬ 
over the malady by w'hich these horses W'ere affected has not 
been rigorously described ; at that time there was an epidemic 
in the district, viz., the smallpox. I believe, for my part, 
that the horses as well as the heifers which were affected 
have simply been subjected to the influence of the epidemic. 
Cowpox is only a mitigated smallpox. 
i/. Bousquet .—That is also my opinion. M. JDepaul .—Ah ! 
so much the better. I am now' reassured; I was afraid M, 
Bousquet w’as of a contrary opinion to this. 
M. Renault .—Being a member of the commission, and ac¬ 
cepting the general ideas expressed in the report of M. 
Bousquet, I would not have spoken, if it had not ap¬ 
peared to me that, in combating what may be called the 
enthusiasm of the reporter, his colleagues, whom you have 
heard, had fallen into the contrary excess relative to the 
fact at Toulouse. If it is necessary not to exaggerate it, 
it is also necessary not to lessen it. In my opinion, it has 
a real value, and I will tell you why. No doubt the fact is 
not so interesting as it might have been, if instead of inocu¬ 
lating one heifer with the matter taken from the mare of 
M. Corail, M. Lafosse or M. Sarrans had had the idea to 
take the matter from some of the other horses affected with 
the same malady as the mare, and had inoculated it with the 
same success. No doubt, also, that direct and effective inocu¬ 
lation from the mare to children is wanting to make the experi¬ 
ment complete ; but as it is, it appears to me to be established 
as a certainty, and that is very important, that a malady of 
the equine species, transmitted to the cow by inoculation, 
produces in the latter a perfect and well characterised cow - 
pox. 
{To he continued^ 
