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must_, nevertheless^, bow, before a fact^ however extraordinary 
it may be^ if it were unexeeptionable. But every one said 
that it was to be regretted that not a greater number of 
inoculations had been made in the cow at Toulouse^ and that 
none were made direct from the horse to the human subject. 
This would have been, in fact, the only means of completing 
the case, and rendering it unassailable. When M. Lafosse 
was so obliging as to accompany me to Bieumes, where the 
mare was, which had furnished the matter for the inoculation 
(this was at the beginning of June), we saw four mares which 
had been attacked by the prevailing epizootic. One amongst 
them had deep traces of the malady about the face, and 
another had them on the pastern; I collected some of the 
scabs which covered the cicatrices. These mares had been at¬ 
tacked after the one of M. Corail, where the disease broke out. 
On the 17th of April, I also collected some of the scabs on 
the pastern of the mare of M. Corail, and some thick puru¬ 
lent matter from a crack in the same part. M. Lafosse, who 
was so very obliging to me during my short stay at Toulouse, 
also gave me some of the scabs taken from the teats of the 
heifers which had been inoculated. All these scabs were 
certainly very old, some having been formed two months ago. 
Being pounded together and properly diluted, they were, with 
some of the matter collected from the mare of M. Corail, 
separately inoculated, on my return to Paris, into horses, 
cows, and children. The results, as you may have expected, 
were negative. But I did not attach much importance to 
these resultSj on aceount of the unfavorable circumstanees 
under which the matter had been obtained. I have, never¬ 
theless, thought it neeessary to mention it here, as too much 
cannot be said, when the elements are to indicate that which 
constitute an important* fact, to serve as the basis of an 
opinion on whieh there is a eontroversy. This is, unfortu¬ 
nately, what has not been done in the majority of the obser¬ 
vations and experimentations which might have served to 
determine the origin of the vaceine. The descriptions 
Avhich M. Lafosse and M. Sarrans have given of the malady 
of Rieumes will, I am convineed, suffice to distinguish it. I 
have only seen the vestiges of this malady on four horses, 
observed by M. Sarrans on sueh a great number, and I 
believe that I should know it again if it presented itself to 
my observation. I can even affirm that I have already met 
with it in two subjeets which were attacked by it—a horse 
and a mare. The horse belonged to the administration of the 
omnibuses of Bordeaux, and was under the care of M. Dupont, 
a distinguished veterinary surgeon, who inoculated a heifer 
