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EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY. 
3 cc. of a solution of caustic potash to the ten thousand), in which 
the sections are placed for several minutes, being afterwards 
washed in a solution of acetic acid (100.00 or better), in a liquid 
made with 10 cc. of distilled water, 2 drops of sulphurous acid, 
and 1 of oxalic acid at five per cent. 
It is only in very acute cases that Loeffler has observed the 
presence of the bacillus in the blood. 
The bacillus of glanders possesses a great power of resistance; 
after three months of drying, it may again actively develop; but 
there does not seem to be a formation of spores, as various anti¬ 
septics are known to destroy the virulence of the bacillus. 
The channel for the entrance of the disease always seems to 
be a solution of continuity of the teguments. Until the present 
time, there seems to be no sufficient reasons for expecting infec¬ 
tion through the intestinal tract. It is possible, however, that 
inoculation may take place through the respiratory organs, the 
lungs sometimes, though rarely, appearing to be the only organ 
found diseased. 
The foetus can be contaminated by the virus of the mother.— 
Ibid. 
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN THE TRANSMISSION OF GLANDERS 
BY MEDIAN CONTAGION OR BY INFECTION. 
By Messrs. Cadeao aud Malet. 
The extent to which the respiratory organs are implicated in 
the transmission of glanders is the question which the authors 
are endeavoring to answer. Believing that the atmosphere is in 
various ways susceptible of contamination, their study has been 
directed to the discovery of the modes among these by which it 
can be made the medium of communicating glanders to a healthy 
animal. 
Experimenting with the donkey, which is held to be the best 
animal for the purpose, they are brought to the conclusion, 
First , that this animal may inhale the breath expired by a glan- 
dered patient with impunity at a distance of one meter. Second\ 
donkeys affected with catarrhal inflammation of the air passages, 
brought on by the inhalation of the vapors of bromine gas, and 
placed in the same conditions, have remained free from glanders, 
