THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
YOL. LTII. 
No. 628. 
APRIL, 1880. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 304. 
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. —From the Ttecueil de Medecine Veterinaire, 
15th February, 1880. MM. Toussaint and Perroncito on 
“ Cholera or Typhus of Fowls.” MM. Vernaut and 
Bouley , “ On the Identity of Black Quarter with Splenic 
Fever. M. Violet on “ Sporadic Pleuro-pneumonia,” from 
the Journal de Medecine Veterinaire et de Zootechnie. 
Cholera of Fowls . Letter by M. Toussaint. —Our col¬ 
league and co-editor, M. Toussaint, of the Toulouse school, 
addresses to us the letter which we shall shortly give, relat¬ 
ing especially to a question of priority which interests him, 
that of the nature of the parasite which gives rise to “ Fowl 
Cholera.” M. Toussaint claims, with justice (and this is 
the main point in the history of the disease), having first, 
accurately determined the parasitical nature of fowl cholera 
by giving the true signification to a material fact which 
Professor Perroncito had observed and even figured, but the 
true import of which had evidently escaped him. In order 
to place our readers in a position to pronounce on this ques¬ 
tion, we can do no better than reproduce here the passages 
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