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withstanding what is incoinplete” M. Bousquet said this 
observation has its value. In trying to interpret this phrase 
there is reason to suppose tliat if M. Bousquet eonsiders this 
fact as incompletey it is because, as he has made the observation 
himself, the horse which was the subject of the disease had not 
been folloAved, and there was no one to inoculate the fluid to 
which the production of the vaccine in Brissat, who had shod 
the horse, is attributed. M. Bousquet has also hinted, in a 
passage of his report, that it was to be regretted that it was not 
exactly known whether the horse was really affected with grease. 
Now it is certain that the mare at Toulouse had not the grease, 
and he is disposed to believe also that the horse of Chartres must 
have been affected with the pustulous disease which had pre¬ 
vailed at Rieumes. I am in a position to fill up the gap which 
has been considered so regretable by M. Bousquet. Here is 
the information which I have received respecting the horse 
shod by Brissat, and on the case of Chartres, as shown by 
these letters :— 
“ La Loupe ; July Ylth, 185G. 
^^Honoured Colleague, —It is with pleasure that I transmit 
to you an answer to the letter in which you ask me divers 
questions concerning a horse affected with grease, and men¬ 
tioned in a notice presented to the Imperial Academy by Drs. 
Pichot and Maunoury. I visited this horse on January 27th, and 
from the information I obtained from the proprietor I found 
that the malady had already existed for six months. It extended 
to the middle of the metatarsus ; the skin was hypertrophied, 
cracked, denuded of hair, covered with grapes (bourgeons), 
and enormous excrescences of a tuberous shape. They existed 
principally on the ofi* hind pastern, and fell over the hoof 
so as to conceal two thirds of it. There was an abundant 
fetid discharge, and the parts could not be touched without 
causing great pain and bleeding. The horse is now nine 
years old. This was the state of the horse and the character 
of the malady about a fortnight before Brissat touched it. 
On receiving your letter, I again visited the case. I observed 
that the stable w'as small and low, and that there is no other 
opening but the door. The symptoms of the malady were the 
same, except the discharge, which is less, and the fetidity, 
which is null. In the same stable there is another horse, six 
years old, standing next to the one in question, which is 
healthy about the legs ; besides which there are three cows at 
the bottom of the same stable. These animals have always 
been in good health; but are so crowded that they cannot all 
lie down at the same time, and the cows cannot get out 
without making the horses stand up to the manger. You 
