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malady of the mountain, it is not less true that they do not 
recover so rapidly. 
A man and his child were affected with malignant pus¬ 
tule (pustule maligne) ; they had not received any treat¬ 
ment, the child was considered irrecoverably lost. A portion 
of the carbolic acid was prescribed, a spoonful to be taken 
every hour for the man, and a teaspoonful for the child, and 
lotions of the same to be applied to the malignant tumours. 
This treatment was punctually followed for several days, and 
to the great astonishment of every one they both recovered. 
Attention is invited to the following experiment: On the 
15th September, a sheep which had never been inoculated 
was bled at the jugular, the blood received in a tube and 
hermetically closed at both ends. On the l6th, an elongated 
coagulum was formed, surrounded by limpid serum, globules 
were deposited in the tube. A small portion of the serum 
was removed into another tube to which some alcohol was 
added, which provoked the formation of a coagulum similar 
to that in the normal serum. On the 17th, the serum in the 
first tube was strongly coloured with red on microscopical 
examination. Some globules only had begun to lose their 
circular form and taken the straight one. On the J8th, at 
10 a.m., the globules were grouped, starred, and free nuclei 
or corpuscles animated by the Brownian movement, one well- 
defined bacteria similar to those in the blood in carbon was 
seen on the field of the microscope. The blood exhaled no 
bad or putrid odour. 
It was considered that the blood might have acquired the 
virulence which was indicated by its physical constitution ; 
and the same day in the afternoon six animals, viz. two young 
bulls, two cows, and two sheep, were inoculated with it; the 
ovine on the inside of the thigh, and the bovine on the inside 
of the ears, the indocility of the latter causing as many as 
twelve punctures to be made, several of them bleeding, and 
thereby inoculation was impossible. On the 21st, at 10 a.m., 
one of the bulls which we will call No. 1 manifested a slight 
change in his general habits; the attendant declared that the 
signs were similar to those he had observed with other ani¬ 
mals at the commencement of this maladv before their 
death. 
He had observed nothing on the other five animals. On 
the 22nd, the bull No. 1 was decidedly dull; the horns were 
hot; great sensibility on pressure of the spine; cardial 
pulsation accelerated and strong; these symptoms are the 
more saillant, as the animal was very vigorous and impatient. 
No diagnosis was formulated, though it might have been 
