ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
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had shown no sign of illness. Had the other died from the 
effect of the inoculation or from the chronic lesions? This 
question could ordy be decided by the inoculation of the 
blood, which was done immediately in a healthy, vigorous, 
wether sheep, which died forty hours after. The abdomen of 
the sheep was strongly distended with gas. There was no 
extravasation of blood under the skin; the liver was of a pale 
colour; the spleen was healthy ; the heart softened; the 
lungs w^ere healthy; there w^as a slight redness in the small 
intestines, the blood fluid ; no bacteria w^ere found in it on 
microscopical examination. 
Experience thus proved that the ewe No. 1 not only died 
of carbon, but that its blood possessed active virulent pro¬ 
perties. On the 11th of August, a rabbit strong and robust, 
and a young bull in good health, eighteen months old, w'ere 
inoculated with the blood of the last sheep, the rabbit by six 
punctures on the inside of the ears, and the bull by the same 
number at the base of the tail round the anus and muzzle. 
The rabbit died on the 19th. At the autopsy the spleen 
was smaller; the liver enlarged and gorged with blood; the 
lungs slightly congested; the pericardium reduced; the 
blood liquid and black, containing a great number of bacte¬ 
ria. It is remarkable that none were found in the blood of 
the sheep from w^hich the rabbit was inoculated; this has 
been showm several times in these experiments. 
On the 19th, the bull was dull, the horns w^ere hotter than 
usual; there w^as great sensibility in the spine ; the pulsation 
w’as pronounced by the attendant, who w^as very intelligent, to 
be quick, he also observed the bull to have slight rigors. On the 
20th, in the morning, these symptoms wxre more decided, half 
a litre of the carbolic (phenic) water was given to him out of a 
bottle; the last swallows provoked a fit of coughing wdiich pro¬ 
duced dangerous phenomena, he fell, got up again; the respira¬ 
tion became hurried, and anxious meteorisation set in; the 
signs of asphyxia became imminent, no doubt some of the 
liquid had got into the bronchial tubes. At tw'o o’clock the 
meteorisation had somewhat abated; the respiration was 
less laboured. At four o’clock the calm and appetite had re¬ 
turned, the animal eat its rations. On the 21st, the animal 
w'as still a little dull, a second dose of the phenic w ater was 
given this time without any accident. At five in the evening 
the animal seemed quite well and survived. 
These experiments authorised the investigator to believe in 
the efficiency of the carbolic acid, notwithstanding the death of 
the rabbit which had been inoculated at the same time as the 
young bull; if true that all animals attacked do not die of the 
