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and have been made known to the veterinary profession by 
M. Delafond in the Bulletin des Seances de la Societe des 
Veterinaires, 1860. M. Delafond had ascertained the pre¬ 
sence of Bacteria only in the blood of animals affected with 
charbon. It is probable that if he had been able to continue 
his researches he would, like me, have ascertained their pre¬ 
sence in some other maladies of the horse. I have, in fact, 
found them many times in the maladies of this animal of a 
typhoid diathesis, influenza, &e. &c., of which the mode of 
manifestation is very different. Thus it has happened to me 
frequently to meet with them in animals which had sunk under 
the thoracic or the abdominal form of this malady. Also in 
horses that had died consequent on those forms which are 
characterised by the raptus haemorrhagic, and moreover in 
those which had sunk under the paraplegic form, which is 
one of the most ordinary modes of expression; for it is most 
remarkable that notwithstanding the diversity of the organs 
affected, the histologic study permits us to aver, under these cir¬ 
cumstances, so different in appearance, the existence of analo¬ 
gous lesions, from which we are logically authorised to presume 
the identity of their nature. I have also found them in the blood 
of an animal which had died consequent on gangrene provoked 
by traumatic reaction. I will briefly relate the case :—17th 
of November, 1861, the horse, number 9814 of the Pantheon 
establishment, was being clipped by one of the grooms. The 
man, in an excess of brutality, struck the animal with the 
point of the scissors at the superior and posterior part of the 
scapula. This was immediately followed by an abundant 
subcutaneous hsemorrhage, and the limb became the seat of 
an extended and painful tumefaction. On the 22nd emphy¬ 
sema appeared, and the horse died on the 23rd from gan¬ 
grene. At the autopsy, the usual lesions of this affection 
were found, and the presence in great numbers of Bacteria in 
the blood was also ascertained. All these observations 
were made immediately, or a short time after death, in a 
space of time varying from one to six hours. Once only I 
have been able to ascertain the presence of these little bodies 
during the life of the animal. But it is necessary to notify 
that they were much smaller than those I have ordinarily 
found, and likewise less numerous. The blood of this animal 
was preserved for several days, and it was impossible to per¬ 
ceive any change in the number or size of these productions. 
I have several times introduced the blood thus altered into 
young sheep, and twice these inoculations have been fol¬ 
lowed by death. The first case is reported in the Bulletin 
de la Societe Veterinaire, page 667, 12th of April, 
