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quite as frequent among rodents as the latter disease among 
fowls. This much being known, the question of identity of 
diphtheria of birds and of men which M. Nicati implies is 
easy of solution. In the numerous examinations which have 
been made of the pathological anatomy of diphtheria of man 
has the parasite which produces and propagates diphtheria 
in birds been found ? I do not know of any instance. But 
there are other arguments against the identity of the affec¬ 
tions, I know many farms, poultry yards, and dove cots, 
which have been depopulated by tuberculo-diphtheria, where, 
nevertheless, diphtheria of man has never occurred. For 
three years I have made more than 200 autopsies of birds of 
many kinds affected with diphtheria without taking any 
special precautions, and though the house where my labora¬ 
tory is is inhabited by many children, no outbreak of diph¬ 
theria has occurred there. All the diphtheritic fowls which 
I have opened have been carefully brought to me by a rag- 
and-bone woman of my acquaintance, who has eaten them 
constantly at home, but neither she nor any of her family 
have been ever affected with diphtheria.”—( Tribune 
Medicate .) 
In reference to this we read in the Progres Medicate that 
M. Trasbot , Clinical Professor at the Alfort Veterinary 
School, has made some fresh experiments concerning diph¬ 
theria of birds. He has ineffectually attempted to convey it 
to the dog by inoculation. The pig proved equally refrac¬ 
tory. Only inoculation of fowl from fowl succeeded. To 
prove the non-communicability of diphtheria of birds to man, 
a pupil of M. Trasbot placed in his throat false membrane 
from the fowl, and did not become affected. M. Trasbot, 
therefore, believes that the fears of M. Nicati are groundless. 
-—[Archives Medicates Beiges.) 
We have frequently expressed our interest in the pathology 
of birds, and hope the above will be acceptable to our readers. 
The name of the student in question surely is worthy of 
record. We find it in the September number of the 
Veterinary Journal; M. Faies thus exhibited his zeal for the 
advancement of medicine. 
New Researches on the Nature of the Alterations of the 
Blood in Typhoid Affections of the Horse , by M. Salle.— 
This able memoir was read before the Societe Centrale de 
Medecine Veterinaire, at the sitting of 10th July, by the 
author, who is a corresponding member of the society. He 
had received a prize for an essay on the subject in the year 
1870, and therefore handled it as an authority. He resolved 
to study (by methods pointed out by M. H. Bouley in 1872) 
