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and two by incision, besides two more on the inside of the 
right ear. The animal was carefully watched, but not the 
slightest effect, either external or internal, could be perceived 
as the result of the inoculations; punctures and incisions 
disappeared without leaving any trace of inflammation. 
Towards the 12th of August the animal, which was kept 
in the stable of the Academy, and had been in perfect health 
up to that time, was attacked with diarrhoea, and, in spite of 
every care, died on the 9th of September. The autopsy was 
made on the 10th in the presence of MM. Leblanc, Boule}", 
Blot, and Depaul. All the viscera, thoracic as well as abdo¬ 
minal, were examined, and the only lesion found was some 
trace of inflammation on the mucous membrane of the in¬ 
testines. 
Exp. 3.—Made by M. Depaul, the loth of November, 
1866, on a heifer three and a half months old, in the presence 
of MM. Blot, Ricord, Leblanc, and Reynal. The state of 
the patient from which the virus was taken was as follows:— 
D—, aged 17, indurated chancre at the glando-prepucial 
groove and the reflected part of the prepuce, erosions on the 
left half of the gland; commencement of reparation, but still 
at the period of specific secretion ; lardaceous secretion puru¬ 
lent; specific indurated base. Adenopathy hl-ingninal, multiple 
and indolent; lenticular roseola on the trunk; rheumatic 
])ains; nothing in the throat. The last coition was on the 
20th of September, twelve days after the chancre appeared ; 
no treatment had been adopted. Six incisions were made 
on the right lateral region of the abdomen near the mammary 
gland; these incisions were fiteen millimetres in length, 
partly penetrating the skin. A certain quantity of the virus 
collected from the sores on the blade of the lancet was de¬ 
posited in each of them. The animal was kept under ob¬ 
servation for a month, but the results were, as in the other, nil. 
At the same time that the commission was making its ex- 
periments at the Academy, M. Reynal made some on his 
own account at the Imperial Veterinary School of Alfort. 
lie inoculated three cows from the chancre on the penis of a 
soldier, which had all the characters of induration and of 
being infectious. The virus had been furnished by Dr. 
Goureau, of the 99th Regiment of the Line, who attended the 
patient. We are also indebted to Dr. A. Fournier, whose 
special researches on the subject are known to every one; 
and we have also the record of some other experiments, 
which are likewise negative in their results. Several of these 
experiments have been made in the presence of MM. Lernoix 
and Danet, doctors in medicine. 
