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that is to say, before the Bacteria have appeared in the blood 
of the inoculated animal, these Bacteria could be propagated, 
and the malady of the spleen could not be communicated by 
inoculation to another animal. M. Davaine adds:— ff The 
following experiment confirms this view in a peremptory man¬ 
ner. A rabbit, which I will designate by the letter A, adult, 
and very vigorous, was inoculated with three or four drops of 
blood taken from a rabbit still alive and affected with Bacteria. 
Forty-six hours after the inoculation (the average time being 
exceeded by six hours), I carefully examined the blood of the 
rabbit A, and I found not a single Bacterium. I then took 
from the vein of the ear twelve to fifteen drops of blood, 
which were injected into the subcutaneous tissue of another 
rabbit about two and a half months old, which I will designate 
byB. Nine hours after this inoculation, I again examined 
the blood of A, and ascertained that it contained avast num¬ 
ber of Bacteria. Immediately I took from the vein of the ear a 
certain number of drops of blood, which I injected under the 
cellular tissue of another rabbit, brother to B, and which I 
designate C. About an hour after this inoculation, the 
rabbit A died; and twenty hours after the rabbit C, the last 
inoculated with the blood containing the Bacteria, also died. 
The examination of the blood of both proved the presence of 
Bacteria. As to the rabbit B, inoculated with the blood 
from A, forty-six hours after the inoculation of the latter, 
and ten hours before its death, and when its blood did not yet 
contain any Bacteria, it is still alive and in good health this 
day, eight days after the inoculation. 
(To be continued .) 
THE LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The annual meeting of the above Association was held at 
the Brunswick Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester, on Wednesday 
evening, the 9th of March. 
The attendance of members and visitors was the largest 
known since the formation of the society, comprising the 
following gentlemen : — Manchester : Mr. Thomas Greaves, 
President; Mr. Roger Hampson, Treasurer; Messrs. John 
Lawson, William Haycock, George Sermon, James Haslam, 
Peter Taylor, A. L. Gibson, W.Dixon; J. Taylor, Oldham; G. 
Brown, Oldham; A. Hampson, Bolton; Brooks, Pilkington; 
Anttall, Rawtinstall; Williams, Bradford, Sec. c York. Vet. 
Med./ Morgan, Liverpool; Cartwright, Whitchurch; W. 
