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Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.B.C.V.S., London. 
II Medico Veterinario. Giornale Teorico-practico della Reale 
Scuola di Medicina Veterinaria. Di Torino. 
ON THE TYPHUS CARBON WHICH PREVAILED AMONGST 
THE HORSES OE THE LANCERS STATIONED AT PA¬ 
LERMO, IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1867. 
By Nicola Chicoli. 
This disease, which is of a highly contagious character, 
of an acute type, and mostly fatal in its results, threatened the 
destruction of all the horses which "vC^ere collected together in 
the stables used by the cavalry regiments. On the 5th of 
October the detachment arrived ; on the 10th, in the morning, 
two horses died, after a few hours of illness ; and in the after¬ 
noon of the same day two more died in the same way. In 
the night from the 10th to the 11th four more died, and one 
in the morning. 
The cry was that the horses were poisoned, not only, the 
author regrets to state, amongst the vulgar, but even amongst 
those in high authority, to such a degree that the ingesta 
and faeces, &c., of the dead animals were collected and sent to 
the hospital to be analysed, so as to detect the noxious matter. 
The horses were, meanwhile, removed a short distance into 
the country, where, on the day after the 12th three more 
died, and three others the day after. 
On the 13th, a mixed commission was appointed by the 
authorities, consisting of two officers, the surgeon, and the 
veterinary surgeon of the regiment, with the chemist of the 
hospital. The commission met the same day at the place 
where the horses had been removed to, and where the car¬ 
cases of the last three and some other animals which had been 
attacked by the malady still were. 
The investigation was begun by an examination of the 
latter; they all presented the diagnostic characters of entero- 
carbon typhus. The blood also, on being examined, had the 
well-known character of carbon. Curative and prophylactic 
measures were adopted, and two of the three remaining horses 
recovered completely, and in the course of time performed 
their usual service. 
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