THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LIII. 
No. 629. 
MAY, 1880. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 305. 
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. 
The works of M. Toussamt on Anthrax and Fowl Cholera, 
which have been carefully placed before our readers as soon 
as possible after their publication have been deemed by the 
French Academy of Sciences worthy of the “ Breant prize, 55 
value 5000 francs. On the 29th of March last the learned 
professor presented to the Academy a contribution to the 
study of the transmission of tuberculosis. His experiments 
on pigs confirm the observations of those German authorities, 
notably Bollinger and Gerlach, who have most carefully 
investigated the matter. The name of Dr. Davaine also is 
well known to those who are familiar with the present rapid 
strides of the study of the various forms of parasites. He 
was the first to observe the Anthrax bacillus, and thus to 
initiate one of the most fruitful phases of modern patho¬ 
logical work. He had been accorded the “ Lacaze prize 55 of 
10,000 francs. Dr. Joseph Leickj, Professor of Anatomy in 
the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, has been 
awarded the u Great Walker prize/ 5 which was specially 
doubled in value by the Council of the Natural History 
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