ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 605 
glanders produced by inoculation from the pus and blood of 
the horse in the previous case, and which died seven days 
after with a characteristic deformation of the face and tume¬ 
faction of the nose, cancerous ulcers at the orifice of nose, 
characteristic swelling of the submaxillary glands. The punc¬ 
tures of the inoculations had also degenerated into a can¬ 
cerous sore with tumefaction of the surrounding ganglia. The 
post-mortem show’ed an alteration of the internal organs. The 
microscopic examination showed a great number of bacteria, 
both in the blood, the lymphatic ganglia, the spleen, and the 
liver, although these organs show’ed no alteration. The blood 
contained no appreciable leucocytes. Bacteria were also 
found in cases of chronic glanders and in chronic farcy, and 
the leucocytes were estimated in one case of chronic farcy at 
1 in 20, and in a case of chronic glanders at 1 in 30. 
General description of the infusoria in the preceding observa¬ 
tions. —They belong to the species bacteria, and there are two 
variations—first, spheroid granulation of a variable diameter, 
measuring at the most 0mm. ’0012, homogenous, refractive, 
seemingly transparent or black, according to whether they 
are in a point or extended, animated at the same time with a 
rapid giratory and a translatory movement. By forming dif¬ 
ferent curves, they are seen to knock against the globules of 
the blood, and thereby communicate motion to them, or else 
they are in close union with one another and disunite again ; 
secondly, they are in the shape of small spindles, refractive, 
and homogenous, varying in length from 0mm. *002 to 
1mm. '010; their breadth is also variable, but does not exceed 
0mm. '0013; generally the shortest are the broadest. They are 
sometimes animated by a vibratory movement with one 
extremity fixed, and at others by a double vibratory and 
translatory resting and curvilinear movement, but generally 
slower than that of the former variety. In the preparations 
the movements of the bacteria did not continue more than 
six hours. When immovable they were united, and formed 
irregular granulated masses. 
The leucocytes having been mentioned in these observa¬ 
tions without attempting to establish their importance in the 
alterations of the farcino-glanderous affection, it will suffice to 
recall the enumeration of the white globules under the divi¬ 
sion of the divers micrometers, which has enabled us to esti¬ 
mate in proportion to the blood globules, and to enumerate 
1 in 30, 1 in 20 to 1 in 6. We may add that in these prepara¬ 
tions the leucocytes have been found agglutinated in numbers 
from four to nine. With the exception of the bacteria and 
