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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals, 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annales de Medecine Veterinaire. 
RESEARCHES ON THE INEUSORIA OE THE BLOOD IN THE 
MALADY KNOWN AS APOPLEXY OE THE SPLEEN (SANG 
DE RATE). 
By M. C. Davaine. (Sitting of the Academy, 27th of July, 1863.) 
Under the name of splenic apoplexy (sang de rate), a 
malady is designated which is very destructive among 
sheep, and frequently prevails epizootically during the 
great heat of summer. In 1850 I was enabled to examine, 
with M. Rayer, several cases of this malady, either at his 
hospital in Paris or in his excursion to Chartres. Before 
this journey, M. Rayer had inoculated a sheep with the blood 
of another which had died from this malady. This inocula¬ 
tion terminated in the death of the animal on the third day. 
I repeated this experiment before him at Chartres, in the 
presence of several medical men and veterinary surgeons. It, 
too, was followed with similar results. Other inoculations on 
different animals performed by these gentlemen showed that 
the malady was transmissible, not only to sheep, but also to 
the ox, the horse, and other animals, and that it kills in two 
or three days. I have from that time made many researches 
on the composition of the blood in this epizootic. In the 
first examination, the blood was examined by the microscope, 
from eight to ten hours after death, when a great number of 
Bacteria were found in it, while in the blood of the healthy 
sheep, either alive or slaughtered at the butcher’s, none of 
these infusoria are ever found. 
In a sheep inoculated by M. Rayer with the blood of the 
former one, and examined two and a half hours after death, I 
found in the blood a great number of corpuscles identical 
with the former. In a note inserted in the ‘ Bulletins of the 
Biological Society’ for the year 1850, M. Rayer gives an 
account of our researches in Paris and on our journey to 
Chartres. He expresses himself as follows on the subject of 
the blood in these two sheep :—The blood examined under 
the microscope was in the same condition as that of the 
sheep affected with the malady which had served for the ino¬ 
culation. The globules, instead of being distinct, as in the 
blood of the healthy animal, w r ere agglutinated, generally in 
irregular masses; there were, besides, small filiform bodies 
double the length of the blood-globules. These little bodies 
