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peritonitis, inflammation and ulceration of the intestines, con¬ 
gestion and oedema of the lungs, lobular isolated pneumonia, 
hypertrophy and softening of the bronchial ganglions.” Also, 
“ that in the infected farms, the diseased sheep had cohabit¬ 
ed with swine affected with pneumo-enteritis; that in others 
they had been in contact with diseased hogs, or exposed to 
their dejections,” and “ that in all the lesions, a short bacteria 
had been found, whose morphology and cultures were very 
analogous, if not identical with the bacteria of hog cholera.” 
All this seems very well, but American and European ob¬ 
servers seem to deny the transmission of hog cholera to sheep 
either by the inoculation of the cultures or that of the virus 
proper. 
But there was more coming. Professor Galtier had prom¬ 
ised to continue his researches, and he kept his word, and in 
reporting to the Acadenlie des Sciences he declares that he 
has successfully inoculated rabbits, pigs, guinea pigs, sheep, 
goats, dogs and fowls with the virus which he had obtained 
from the sheep he had seen in the southern part of France, 
and that comparative inoculation made on the same various 
species of animals with the virus of pigs sick with pneumo- 
entiritis had given him the same results/ His conclusions Ax 
the perfect identity of the disease of the sheep with the hog 
cholera of swine. 
Again, in a third series of experiments, Professor Galtier 
says that the disease of the sheep which he had studied is 
transmissible to all farm animals, and that it may produce 
epizootic abortion in cows and broncho pneumonia in young calves, 
and that in some cases it has been described as a typhoid affec¬ 
tion of horses. 
These statements are of an important character, and indi¬ 
cate a state of things differing so totally from what has been 
hitherto known and admitted as tested fact, that we feel jus¬ 
tified in expressing a fear that Professor Galtier has been 
hasty in his conclusions and probably has not paid sufflcient 
attention to one especial point in the study, nor considered it 
as thoroughly as ought always to be done in similar zymotic 
affections: viz,, the correct and complete biology of the microbe 
he has found , 
