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had furnished the virus. I departed for Toulouse in the first 
days of June^ 1860. I met there Dr. Pidoux and my colleague 
INI. Dupaul, whom I made acquainted with the object of my 
journey. I was very kindly received at the School of Tou¬ 
louse by ^I. Lafosse; he first conducted me to see the inocu¬ 
lated heiferSj which were still in the infirmary of the school. 
I found the cicatrices of the punctures w'here they had been 
inoculated in a favourable state. The mare from which the 
virus had been taken was sent back to its proprietor, who 
resided about twelve leagues distant from Toulouse, near 
Rieumes. M. Lafosse was so kind as to accompany me to 
the latter place, where we found M. Sarraus, who went with 
us to M. Corail. Before starting, he showed us two mares 
which he said had had the same malady as that of the mare 
of M. Corail. There remained only a few scabs in the bend 
of the pastern, and some lenticular points depilated on the 
other parts of the leg. It had not been a question up to this 
time as to the diagnosis. It Avas at that moment I said. 
But this is not the grease.^^ M. Lafosse, M. Sarraus, and 
myself, all agreed in this. We went afterwards to M. CoraiPs. 
On our road, M. Sarraus showed us another mare which had 
also been attacked by the same malady. This mare shoAved 
manifest traces, not only on the legs, but on the side of the 
head and face, where numerous cicatrices existed. Finally, 
Ave arrived at M. CoraiPs, where the mare in question also 
presented some traces of the evil. The pastern was denuded 
of hair; there Avere also some scabs in the bend of this region, 
and there Avas a small crack, the bottom of which was someAvhat 
moist. On some part of the leg there were small circular spots 
denuded of hair, or else the hair came off easily, carrying small 
thin scabs with it. Here arose again the question of the diag¬ 
nosis, and Ave all three agreed that the mare of M. Corail had 
not been affected by the grease, but by an eruptiA'e malady 
similar to that by Avhich the other mares had been affected, 
Avhich had been shown to us bA^ IM. Sarraus. The next daA^ 
I paid a visit to M. Bousquet, who AA^as at his country house 
near Toulouse. I told him what I had seen the daA" before, 
and Avhat I thought of the malady of the mare of M. Corail. 
I spoke to M. Prince, the director of the School of Toulouse, 
and to ]VOI. Gourdon and Serres, chiefs of the SerAuce. On 
repassiiig through Bordeaux, I announced to M. Dupont that 
the case of Toulouse, which had already caused much noise, 
Avas not a case of grease which had communicated the 
vaccine. On mv return to Paris, I communicated to all who 
cared, and notably to M. Dupaul and all my fellow members 
of the academy, all that I had said at Toulouse and Bordeaux. 
