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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 INFUSORIA OE THE BLOOD IN THE 
MALADY KNOWN AS APOPLEXY OF THE SPLEEN (SANG 
DE RATE). 
By M. C. Davaine. (Sitting of the Academy, 27th of July, 1863.) 
0 Continued from p. 192.) 
I will not at present raise tlie question whether the 
Bacteria of splenic apoplexy in sheep, and other animals 
inoculated from them, act as animalcula? or as ferments. 
I hope that by further observations I shall soon be enabled 
to throw some light on this subject; observations which 
by being extended to those maladies in man that are 
more or less analogous, will acquire a greater degree of 
interest. I will for the present confine myself to signalize 
one fact, which I believe to be new. An examination of six 
animals attacked, or that had died of splenic apoplexy, have 
always shown in their blood the existence of the same micro¬ 
scopic beings, though these corpuscles had evidently been 
developed during the life of the infected animal; while their 
relation with the malady which caused the death of the 
animal cannot admit of a doubt. 
Continuation of these researches at the sitting of the 10 th 
of August. 
The results of my first investigations on the infusoria of 
splenic apoplexy, communicated to the Academy at its sit¬ 
ting, July 27th, 1863, have been fully confirmed by other 
researches. 
In fourteen inoculations performed on rabbits with 
fresh infected blood, arising from the presence of the Bac¬ 
teria, fourteen times have similar Bacteria been reproduced, 
and the death of the inoculated animal has invariably fol¬ 
lowed. In several cases the infusoria have been observed 
tw r o, four, or five hours before the death of the inoculated 
animal. In several cases the blood taken from the animal 
while yet alive, has transmitted the malady, and caused death 
by the Bacteria. 
The Bacteria develope themselves in the blood, and not in 
any particular organ. When, by a persevering investigation, 
