SINGULAR EXPERIENCES IN FRANCE. 
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SINGULAR AND UNACCOUNTABLE EXPERIENCES IN FRANCE,* 
SAID TO BE IN CONNECTION WITH SWINE-PLAGUE. 
By M. Galtier. Reported and criticised by F. S. Billings.) 
Pathological Physiology. —Determination of the Animal Species , Disposed to 
contract , by Spontaneous Contagion or Inoculation , Infectious Pneumo- 
Enteritis , Considered to the Present Time as a Disease Characteristic of Swine. 
Ordered by the Honorable Minister of Agriculture to go 
and study in the Basses-Alpes an epizootic which prevailed in 
the sheep, I had as early as the 12th and 13th of last January 
recognized that I had to deal with pneumo-enteritis, which 
had been transmitted from the hog to animals of the ovine 
species. The malady had been brought to three estates by 
two young hogs recently purchased and which were taken 
sick soon after their arrival. The sheep of the three 
estates became infected by living promiscuously with the 
hogs, and numerous cases of death were produced. The 
flocks on two other estates had become contaminated, either 
by contact which they had in the pasture with those that the 
malady was decimating, or by frequenting the place where 
the cadaver of a pig dead of pneumo-enteritis had been drag¬ 
ged and buried. Only one hog out of seven that had been 
sick had died, the others had recovered or were on the way 
to recovery. 
Fifty-five sheep had already died at the time of my mis¬ 
sion. There still remained a few that coughed. One was 
killed and presented lesions which confirmed me in the idea I 
had expressed, of the transmission of pneumo-enteritis from 
the hog to sheep. Preparations and cultures made from the 
products of these lesions gave new confirmation to my diag¬ 
nosis, and in a first report to the Honorable Minister, I was 
very strongly of the opinion of the existence of pneumo¬ 
enteritis among the sheep. At the same time I called atten¬ 
tion to the fact that the affection was much more severe 
* Comptes Rendus, Tome cviii, No, 12, 1889, p. 626. 
