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also ask whether the vaccine has prevailed^ and if any children 
had been attacked by the smallpox^ or whether any had been 
vaccinated. For my part I have not been called on, and I 
have not heard that the malady has prevailed for the last four 
years, but I have made inquiries of M. Honelbeck, a 
retired doctor, mayor of the place where Brissat resides, who 
has furnished me with the enclosed information. If ulti¬ 
mately you should require more information, write to me, 
and I will accede with pleasure to your request. 
Yours, &c., 
Bonsergent.’^ 
“Belhomert; Sept. 1856. 
(Inclosure.) 
Sir, —I hasten to transmit to you the information which 
you ask me concerning Brissat, a shoeing smith. For a long 
time this man has lived with, and worked for 'M. Poirier, 
the farrier of my parish, who not only has no cows, but has 
declared to me of never having shod any animals of the 
bovine tribe. I can also affirm that we have no cows afiected 
with the vaecine, and that all the children are vaccinated in 
the first year of their age. This year none have been attacked 
with the smallpox. I may add, that the horse in question has 
been shod only once by the man Brissat, who put on the 
slioe while the proprietor held up the foot of the diseased leg 
in the usual way. Finally, I must state that Brissat was 
attacked by phlegmonous erysipelas, which invaded the 
whole of the back of his hand, a fortnight before he shod the 
horse; and add in the interest of science, that his constitu¬ 
tion is lymphatic, and that he has been affected with lame¬ 
ness for the last four years arising from spontaneous laxation 
of the femur. I hope, dear sir, that this information may 
contribute to throw some light on the question submitted to 
the academy. 
Yours, &c., 
‘‘ E. Honelbeck, 
Maire et Medecin.^^ 
The horse shod by Brissat was then affected with the grease 
in the chronic form, of at least half a yeaFs standing; 
therefore there was nothing wanting to render it as complete 
as M. Bousquet could wish, except the transmission of the 
virus from the horse direct to children : this certainly was of 
the greatest importance. I knew of these two circumstances 
when the diseussion was before the academy in 1860; and it 
^yas because I knew that the horse was affected with ehrouic 
