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1860. The second inoculation, followed by death, was on 
the 1st of December, 1861, at 2 o’clock p.m., and the 
animal died on the 4th, at 2 p.m., after having been rather 
dull, and losing its appetite. The body was emphysematous, 
and, on parting the wool, the skin was seen to be of a dark- 
violet colour. On taking off the skin, blood-tumours were 
found in the subjacent cellular tissue, occupying principally 
the neighbourhood of the ganglions, at the entrance of the 
thorax and the groins ; the abdomen contained a little bloody 
serosity; the volume of the spleen was somewhat increased; 
the parenchyma was black and tarry, and contained Bacteria in 
abundance, as did the blood, and all the other parts of the 
body. These are not the only lesions met with in this affec- 
tion. Globules of a particular form are sometimes found; 
they are regularly rounded off, and larger than the normal 
white globules, of which they have the appearance. They 
are united in small clusters, in great abundance, and are 
composed of an outer cell of a bulbous appearance, reflecting, 
in some, a violet tint. In the centre of this cell there are 
found several nuclei, the double outline of which is well 
marked. In some these nuclei have degenerated into the 
sandy or granulous form particular to the nuclei, which are 
produced by scissian, so that evidently we have under our eye 
an alteration of the elements which are in a fair way of mul¬ 
tiplication. This, moreover, will explain the rapid march of 
these affections. The blood usually presents this remarkable 
character, that if you examine it after death the globules 
have often disappeared, and crystals of different forms have 
taken their place, the result of their dissolution, the most 
abundant of which have a great analogy with the crystals of 
the cholesterine. The cells of the liver in the midst of adipose 
globules are almost invisible. The muscular fibres also con¬ 
tain adipose globules in abundance, and their elegant striated 
appearance has almost totally disappeared. This pheno¬ 
menon is above all most remarkable in the psoas muscles in 
the paralysis which I have described above. The presence 
of adipose matter is in great abundance in all the tissues, 
and fluids of the economy. The existence of Bacteria 
analogous, according to M. Davaine, to the products which 
are developed in the butyric fermentation, lead us to suspect 
that the presence of the adipose element plays a great part in 
the appearance of this affection, particularly if we notice that 
it is always the fattest animals which are attacked by the 
malady. 
In resuming this notice, which it was necessary to make as 
brief as possible, I will say,—First. That the Bacteria are not 
