TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 851 
appeared dull, and refused his food; but towards evening he 
drank a little broth, and lay down quietly during the night. 
The next morning he was still a little stupefied; he drank some 
broth, and swallowed two balls of meat containing each one 
gramme of the sulphite of magnesia; the third day he fed as 
usual, was lively, but seemed inclined for repose; the wound 
resulting from the operation w r as red, dry, and of a healthy 
aspect; the fourth day the animal was considered recovered; 
he was lively, fed well, and the wound was progressing towards 
cicatrization. On the same day, and nearly at the same hour, 
three grammes of the same putrid blood were injected into 
the right femoral veins of two other dogs, weighing from 
seven to eight kil. each, to which no sulphite had been 
administered. One of them directly afterwards was in a state 
of stupor; he stood without moving, his head hanging down ; 
his strength left him, he fell on his side, got gradually worse, 
and died at the end of five hours. On the autopsy the 
lungs were found to be covered with small ecchymosed spots, 
the liver was marbled with black-violet spots, the right ven¬ 
tricle of the heart contained black fluid blood, the gastro¬ 
intestinal mucous membrane was coloured with a deep red, 
and the small intestines presented a sanguino-mucous exuda¬ 
tion. The other dog, after five hours of sickness, during the 
whole of which he refused his food, could not stand up, but 
remained constantly lying on his side in a state of stupor; he 
also died after the wound made for the injection had assumed 
a gangrenous aspect. 
The autopsy presented in the lungs, which were of 
a bright-red colour, a great number of black, ecchymotic 
spots, one of which showed a tendency, in the centre, to 
suppurate; some grumous black blood was found in the 
right cavity of the heart and large blood-vessels; in the left 
ventricle there was a large fibrous coagulum, of a yellowish 
colour, which extended like a polypus into the aorta; the 
intestinal mucous membrane was throughout much injected, 
thickened, and covered in places with purulent matter. 
Nothing can be more conclusive than this experiment. It 
shows in these two dogs, inoculated at the same time, a dif¬ 
ference in the power of resistance to morbific action; but 
both succumbed with the same symptoms, and the same 
lesions were found on the post-mortem; while the dog which 
had been sulphited, after having suffered from a slight 
stupor, consequent on the operation, recovered his normal 
state, and, after a few days, his perfect health. To show 
more evidently that this dog was indebted for his safety to 
the antifermentative action of the sulphite of soda, which 
