THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LIII. 
No. 626. 
FEBRUARY, 1880. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 302. 
Communications and Cases. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Demonstrator 
of Anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. 
Summary. —Recent Researches on “ Charbon,” by MM. 
Pasteur, Colin, Arloing, Feser, Cornevin, Chamberland, 
and Roux, from the Recucil de Medecine Veterinaire, and 
the Journal de Medecine Veterinaire et de Zootechnie. 
The activity of experimental observers abroad is mani¬ 
festing itself in numerous researches on the various ques¬ 
tions which the diseases comprised under the term charbon 
present. These are of the highest interest to us at the 
present time in this country, for, thanks to Dr. Greenfield 
and his colleague at the Brown Institution, England has 
not been behindhand. We shall endeavour to briefly sum¬ 
marise the new facts which recent foreign investigations 
have added to our store of knowledge of this subject. M, 
Chauveau*s paper, “ On the influence of management or race 
on the liability of Sheep to become affected with Splenic 
Fever,” takes precedence in time, and in its general import¬ 
ance, as tending to materially alter our theories on the 
general nature of infectious maladies and their prevention. 
We are aware that while animals of some kinds are suscep- 
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