758 TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
This experiment may not be satisfactory to all minds, 
though I confess it a])pears so to me; and as this is a point of 
very great interest, I have sought in another way for evidence 
regarding it. First, however, I will mention an experiment 
which will not at once appear to bear on the question of 
temperature. I drew out a fine glass tube in such a way as 
to produce a fusiform receptacle continued longitudinally 
each way into a tube of almost capillary fineness for about 
two inches, which again expanded at the end. Having 
squeezed out a drop of blood from my finger, I sucked up a 
portion into the tube till the receptacle and its capillary ex¬ 
tensions were filled. I then broke off the expanded ends, 
and placed the little tube thus filled in a bath of the strongest 
liquor ammoniae. Here certainly the blood was in circum¬ 
stances in which it could not lose ammonia, but where any 
change in its amount must be by w’ay of increase, and yet I 
found, on opening the receptacle by snapping it across after a 
scratch with a file, that instead of remaining longer fluid 
than in a watch-glass, the blood in it, being more in contact 
with the glass, w’as always more quickly coagulated, while 
coagulation was still more rapid in the capillary tube, where 
the blood was still more exposed to the influence of the foreign 
solid—the greater proximity to the liquor ammoniae having 
no influence upon it. 
[To he continued^ 
Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.B.C.Y.S., London. 
Clinique VeUrinairey January, 1863. 
ORIGIN OF COW-POX. 
{^Continuedfrom p, 705.) 
I CANNOT dissimulate that this appears to me veiy 
cxtraordinarv, wdien it has been well demonstrated at the 
present time that the sheep-pox, which, in 'appearance at 
least, has more analogy with the vaccine than the malady 
of Toulouse, as described by MM. Lafosse and Sarrans, 
does not become transformed into the vaccine when inocu¬ 
lated in the cows, and that, moreover, it does not possess 
the property of preserving man from the smallpox. We 
