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P. PAQUIN. 
a condition of things that has nearly passed away under the 
improved hygiene of our times. 
In his essay on glanders he tells us that all his experiments 
lead him to the blind alley of incurability. Closing the book 
with its quaint though well executed plates, its wide margins 
and good letter press, we ask ourselves what would have been 
the present condition of veterinary medicine in England had 
Sainbel lived to a green old age. It would have stood on a 
much higher plane, for looking back at the work of the school 
since his day, we are obliged to admit that his successor has 
never arisen. There have been professors and professors, but 
only one Sainbel. 
Note, however, that the seeds of veterinary medicine in 
the United States were also planted by one of Sainbel’s 
compatriots. We owe more to him than did the English 
school to Sainbel. Fortunately, Providence has permitted 
him to watch the ripening of the seed he lias sown, and it is 
doubtless the heartfelt wish of all of us that he will long stay 
to watch the garnering of the crop. 
BLACK LEG. 
GASEOUS CIIARBON, SYMPTOMATIC ANTHRAX, BACTERIAN 
ANTHRAX.* 
By Dr. P. Paquin, Columbia, Mo. 
INTRODUCTION. 
This malady causes the death of many thousand calves 
and young cattle yearly in our State, and it would be difficult 
to estimate the total annual loss in America. From all ac¬ 
counts, however, it seems that there is not a State in the Union 
free from it. One can scarcely read an agricultural paper 
without finding something about it. In Missouri, every 
monthly report to the Board of Agriculture, coming from 
farmers in every quarter of the State, furnish ample evidence 
of its extensive devastation and the powerless condition in 
which farmers and stockmen find themselves. In the hope of 
rendering some service to the State, we undertook the study 
♦Bulletin No. 12, Agricultural College Experimental Station. 
