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generalization, and by their dominant characteristic exuda¬ 
tion. All the inoculated died rapidly, like those in the Basses- 
Alpes, all present among other alterations a violent conges¬ 
tion of the internal surface of the skin, with darker spots in 
•certain regions, a no-less active congestion in the ganglionic 
system, an exudative inflammation of the chest and pleura, 
with effusion of liquid in the peritoneal and pleural cavities, 
and with formation of pseudo-membranes, lesions of enteritis 
and fibrinous broncho-pneumonia. The dogs presented lesions 
of the same order, especially enteritis and pleuro-pneumonia. 
I very recently received from the Loir lesions coming 
from a young pig, and with this third source of virus I have 
obtained the same results as with the two preceding. 1 trans¬ 
mitted the disease to guinea-pigs, rabbits, sheep and goats. 
I am at this moment making attempts to transmit the 
disease to bovines and to solipeds, and if I may judge of them 
by facts of observation that I have already gathered, it is 
permitted to believe that they will end in positive results. I 
also occupied myself in trying to learn if certain affections 
that break out at certain times and in certain places among 
sheep, goats and cattle, are not connected with pneumo-enter¬ 
itis. I have especially in view, in these investigations, a disease 
among goats that has been described under the name of bon- 
frida ” that has at times been regarded as contagious peri¬ 
pneumonia, and which has caused considerable losses in cer¬ 
tain flocks. I have also in view a malady of the bovine 
species which, by the pulmonary lesions which it shows, much 
resembles pneumo-enteritis. I have besides on the same farm 
observed the disease of swine and that of bovine animals. 
To sum up, pneumo-enteritis, aimed at by the decree of 
July 28, 1888, to the sanitary police, as a disease that should 
be special to the porcine species, is transmissible by inocula¬ 
tion or direct or indirect contact not only to small animals 
such as guinea-pigs, rabbits, barn-yard fowls, but also to dogs, 
sheep, goats, and very likely to animals of the bovine species. 
It is much more severe among sheep and goats than among 
hogs. It is then absolutely indicated to prevent all contact 
between sick hogs and other animals on farms where this 
