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of negative facts was brought forward by them. The Alfort 
students had never become affected with glanders, though 
running risk in every form of inoculation from their patients 
and dissection subjects. However, a medical man of Cha- 
renton stated that the mortality of the students from a dis¬ 
ease which he had hitherto considered a peculiar form of 
putrid fever, but the symptoms were those exhibited by M. 
Reynal’s patient, was considerable. Here, again, a momen¬ 
tous question was settled by experimentation, for Urbain 
Leblanc inserted some pus from the human patient beneath 
the skin of a horse, which died from acute glanders. We 
can imagine this history will not be very palatable to anti- 
vivisectionists. The dispute might have been carried on in 
theoretical argumentation for years; but one scratch with 
a lancet, and the death of one horse, saved the lives of, inter 
alios, numbers of veterinarian students by indicating to them 
a source of terrible danger. During the past year careful 
examination of the blood and tissues of men who have died 
from “ wool-sorters’ disease ” has shown the presence of 
Bacillus anthracis. The disease is taken from the skins of 
sheep who have died from some form of anthrax—another 
proof of the value of the study of comparative pathology. 
ABSTRACT OF LECTURES, BY DR. W. S. GREEN¬ 
FIELD, Professor Superintendent of the Brown 
Institution, ON “ RECENT INVESTIGATIONS 
IN THE PATHOLOGY OF INFECTIVE AND 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.” 
SPECIALLY REPORTED. 
(Continued from p. 28.) 
Lecture IV commenced with an enumeration of the synonyms 
and symptoms of the disease commonly known as “ quarter 
evil.” For these the lecturer expressed his indebtedness to Mr. 
Banham, M.R.C.V.S. He then commenced to discuss the ques¬ 
tion whether this disease is the same as splenic fever. It assumes 
two forms, one affecting the quarter, the other being of the 
nature of mycosis, and affecting the intestines. The disease 
occurs especially in young stock, is most prevalent in the early 
part of the summer, is more localised, seldom more than one or 
two animals are attacked, and its communicability by contagion 
is questionable. Also the post-moriem appearances are some- 
