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laboratory is also true beyond its walls ; and we do not 
despair of seeing M. Colin adopt M. Pasteur’s views, as we 
did once before, when irrefutable experiments showed him 
that fowls may be rendered susceptible of charbon by 
placing them in determined conditions. Prom a practical 
point of view, the positive results of M. Pasteur and his 
colleagues on the etiology of charbon cannot and ought not 
to fail in leading to rigorous measures of sanitary police to 
prevent that which is now appropriately termed culture 
of the disease. Thus, the cutting up of carcases, except in 
knackers’ yards, should not be allowed ; for wherever it 
is performed it sows the soil with germs in the blood shed, 
and also the blood which remains in the skin or on its sur¬ 
face makes it a receptacle for germs. “ Again, burying 
must be supplanted by some more complete and rapid means 
of destruction, as, for example, cremation of the entire carcase 
by means of ordinary kilns, which could be constructed and 
supported by general subscription. In the neighbourhood 
where charbon is rife these should be so near to one another 
as not to leave a too great distance between them. Prefer¬ 
ably we might make use of the movable kilns suggested 
by M. Kuchborn, which we shall describe in some of our 
early chroniques .” Wanting these means, breaking up the 
carcase should be preferred to simple burial, but faute de 
mieux , the remains should be buried in some substance 
capable of destroying organic matters in a very short time, 
and the superficial layers of the earth covering the graves 
should for some time receive special attention in the form 
of lime dressings, or watering with some germ-destroying 
liquid. 
In a letter to the editor of the Reeueil for the 20th 
November, 1879, MM. Arloing and Cornevin discuss the 
question, “ Does a symptomatic charbon occur ?” Feser and 
Bollinger’s researches, they consider, have not completely 
resolved the question, for their inoculations, when they 
proved fatal, probably did so as a result of septicaemia, 
judging from the quantity and quality of the inoculated 
matter. M. Arloing undertook experiments to settle this 
question, associating with himself MM. Cornevin and 
Thomas. Splenic fever and symptomatic charbon (Chabert) 
show themselves side by side in that part of Haute Marne 
watered by the Meuse termed Bassigny; the second disease 
occurs, especially at the commencement and end of the 
winter, in young cattle from six months to four years old. It 
appears suddenly ; the animal is dull and has no appetite, 
and often there is lameness, at first obscure, but later it is 
