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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annates de Medecine Veterinaire, 
RESEARCHES ON THE INFUSORIA OF 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.) 
(Continued front p. 242.) 
The longest duration of life after inoculation has 
been seventy-six hours from all experiments. It is not 
necessary, I think, to dwell on these facts of the exist¬ 
ence of the Bacteria in the blood in splenic apoplexy, as 
no one in the present state of science will seek for any 
other agents as the cause of contagion than these corpus- 
cules*—agents mysterious and unseizable, which develop 
and destroy themselves under the same conditions and are 
possessed of the same physiological properties as the Bacteria. 
This agent is visible and palpable; it is an organized being, 
endowed with life, propagating in the same manner as other 
beings. By their presence and their rapid multiplication in 
the blood, they bring into its constitution certain modifica¬ 
tions, no doubt acting in the manner of ferments, which 
speedily kill the infected animal. The study of splenic apo¬ 
plexy raises other questions which have also been the object 
of my researches, but the results are not so exact as to enable 
me to lay them before the Academy. 
The Academy, at its sitting on the 27th of July, received a 
very interesting communication from M. Davaine, on the 
frequency of Bacteria being found in the blood of sheep 
attacked with splenic apoplexy (sang de rate), and on inocu¬ 
lations made for the purpose of experiment on different ani¬ 
mals. It is for the completion, as much as lies in my power, 
of this communication, that I have the honour to submit 
for your consideration a few observations which I have col¬ 
lected on the same subject. 
These singular productions were observed for the first time 
by Facks in 1848, by Bravell, of Dorpat, and by Pallender, 
