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VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LII. 
No. 620. 
AUGUST, 1879. r ° u ^ h f Q f 9 
Communications and Cases. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, Demonstrator of Anatomy at the 
Royal Veterinary College. 
[Continued from p. 486.) 
Summary. —From the Hecueil de Medecine Veterinaire, 
15th June, 1879:—“ M. Bouley’s remarks on M. Colin’s 
paper on Tuberculosis/’ From the Revue Veterinaire de 
Toulouse, June, 1879.—Review of Journals—Extracts and 
Analyses:— [Mauri) “A Modification of the Method of 
Performance of (Esophagotomy ; ” [Beucler) “ Poisoning of 
Fifty Sheep by an Arsenical Bath “ Typhoid Fever of Man 
attributed to the use of Flesh of Diseased Animals as Food ” 
(Le xix e Siecle). 
“ M. Bouley’s remarks on Tuberculosis of the Rabbit.” M. 
Colin communicated to the Academy of Medicine on the 
13th May the results of a highly interesting experimental 
investigation of the question of inoculation of tuberculosis 
from one rabbit to another. “ The question of the contagious¬ 
ness of tuberculosis has been much discussed, and still is 
under debate. Whilst experimentation seems to prove its 
communicability conclusively, there are, nevertheless, facts 
which at any rate seem to contradict it. It is still question¬ 
able whether the diseased condition which follows inoculation 
with tuberculous matter is indeed, as in some contagions, the 
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