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de Barberet.’) At this period Bourgelat, who had just 
founded the veterinary schools, recorded a consultation on 
this epizootic. (Rouen, 1763.) 
1775. It was observed by Belleray on the borders of the 
Dordogne, near its union with the Garonne. (Bordeaux, 
1775). 
1779. It was studied by Dorfeuille in Agenais and Bigorre. 
(Park-Sainte-Marie, 1779.) 
1780. This year is remarkable for an outbreak of charbon 
nearly all over France. Charberet and Bredin, with their 
numerous students, studied it, and endeavoured to stop its 
ravages. 
1780 to 1800. New outbreaks among the domestic animals, 
occurring generally during a great elevation of temperature, 
and taking place successively in nearly all the departments. 
During the existence of the present race of veterinarians 
it has broken out at various periods, and been studied by 
several of them. In Aneyron by Roche Lulim ; in the Loiret 
and Garonne by MM. Goux and Dupont; in the Hautes Alpes, 
by M. Reys, who was sent to investigate it. M. Renault 
was sent, in 1846, to study an enzootic of charbon in Allier 
and Nievre; at the same time M. Delafond was sent for the 
same purpose into the department of the Somme. In the 
Eure and Loire it has been studied by the veterinary society 
and the medical association of the department, and particu¬ 
larly by M. Garreau, veterinarian at Chateauneuf, who was 
recompensed for his work on this subject by the Imperial 
and Central Society of Veterinary Medicine at their meeting 
in 1847. This gentleman, an influential French authority 
on a form of charbon affecting sheep, and known as sang de 
rate (splenic apoplexy) has recently published an essay on 
this disease (Recueil de Medeeine Vet., July and August, 1871), 
from which I now translate the latter half of the chapter on 
etiology, and also a chapter on experimental feeding. 
