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disastrous state of things, and what he wanted to know was 
whether something could not be done to prevent the further 
spread of the disease. 
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon said he was very much 
afraid he could say nothing that would throw light on the 
matter or give comfort to the farmers. If his hon. friend 
would look back, he would find that the disease had been 
more or less prevalent, after such wet seasons as they now 
had. If he looked back for years, he w^ould find the same 
thing had happened. But he was astonished to hear him say 
it was a contagious disease, because he had never heard that 
admitted, although his attention had been occupied by the 
subject on several occasions. With regard to preventing the 
spread of the disease, he thought it impossible. There was 
no power to declare a district infected where the disease was 
prevalent, and this, he believed, would be very much objected 
to, were it done. As to what should be done in future, he 
was unable to advise them in any way that would give them 
much satisfaction. As far as he could, however, he would 
consider whether anything could be done, but, as it was not 
a contagious disease, under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act, they had no power to act in the matter. 
THE BLOOD IN ANiEMIA. 
At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 
M. Hayem read a paper on the anatomical characters of 
blood peculiar to intense and extreme anaemia. In what 
he calls aglobulie intense (the richness in red corpuscles vary¬ 
ing from 2,000,000 to 800,000), he notes that crystals form 
in the dried blood, like those of dried lymph; and in the 
fresh blood, he finds -white corpuscles with coloured con¬ 
tents, and still retaining amoeboid contractility (such are 
also found in lymph). In aglobulie extreme (800,000 to 
450,000 red corpuscles), there are elements like the red 
nucleated corpuscles of oviparous animals. In all cases, the 
white corpuscles are much more numerous and smaller than 
in normal blood. In anaemia, then, the blood approaches in 
character to lymph .—The British Medical -Journal* 
