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ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
liar susceptibility of the animal to the action of the carbolic acid. 
At 4.30 p.m. there ^Yas a sensible amelioration in the state 
of the patient; another dose of the acid was given which 
provoked some rigors and anxiety, but the animal began to 
feed soon after. On the 7th, the animal was considered 
completely cured. 
I'he summary of this last experiment is, that three animals 
of the bovine race were inoculated with the blood from one 
affected with carbon; two of these contracted the malady, 
one was left to itself and died, the other was treated with 
carbolic acid and recovered. The result seemed to be con¬ 
clusive. The experiments made at Allanche showed that 
none of the animals which were successfully inoculated sur¬ 
vived when not submitted to treatment, while those which 
were treated with carbolic acid in proper doses recovered. 
It does seem, therefore, impossible to doubt the efficacy of 
this agent as an excellent antiseptic. It seems that its effect 
is speedy, and in proportion as it penetrates into the blood¬ 
vessels, the countenance of the animal evidently changes; it 
stops the alteration of the blood by its chemical properties. 
From these experiments and the results of others on 
animals affected with the malady of the mountain, the com¬ 
mission recommends the phenic, ^. e. carbolic acid as a cure, 
and the coal tar which contains it as a prophylactic in all cases 
of the malady of the mountain and carbonaceous diseases. 
H. BouLEY, President. 
A. Sanson, Secretary. 
DANGER OE FEEDING ON OILCAKE. 
Some excellent oil is extracted from the beech-nut, which 
is sometimes very lucrative; but the cake given to horses in 
quantity may prove fatal. Death for certain follows the 
ingestion of 1 to 1^ kil. per diem. The danger to cattle is 
not so great; but it is nevertheless necessary to take 
precaution, and not to exceed when given to milch cows 
2^ kil. a day. The narcotic principle is contained in the 
brown pellicle which envelopes the kernel, but fortunately not 
in the substance of the kernel; for this reason pigs do not 
suffer from picking them up in the forest. The nature of the 
poison has not been ascertained, but hot w^ater removes it; 
but the water then becomes poisonous. Its effect is on the 
spinal marrow, paralysis of the lungs, causing death by 
suffocation.— Ibid. 
