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cow recovered, and in due time gave birth to a calf, which 
was sold at a maximum price. The same results were 
obtained in another case. The animal was a heifer, and 
again the farmer and proprietor were the operators. In 
December, 1877, the disease again appeared, and M. Jolly 
tried the injection of iodine as a preventive means on twenty- 
nine beasts. Of these he found afterwards that three be¬ 
came affected, and with them he repeated the injection, and 
all three recovered. On the other hand, out of five animals 
(adults and heifers), all affected except one, on which the in¬ 
travenous injection was tried, the symptoms became so greatly 
aggravated that recovery of the affected beasts was given up 
as hopeless. On the following day, however, they were out 
of danger, and all recovered. The disease manifested itself 
in a fortnight’s time in three of the twenty-nine inoculated 
animals, and terminated in death, though intravenous iodine 
injections were tried on one and iodine drenches on another. 
The disease was so rapid in the third that there was no time 
for treatment. M. Jolly repeated the injections for the sur¬ 
vivors on 14th January, 1878. Three of them were already 
affected at the time of operation, and for them the dose was 
increased, doubtless excessively, for two of them suddenly 
fell. But ihe effects were evanescent, and they recovered, 
not only from the medicine, but also from the disease. In 
spite of these injections which were intended to be preven¬ 
tive, almost all the remainder of the herd fell ill, but only 
one of them died ! Thus, where death used to be the rule 
during an outbreak of charbon, it has now become the ex¬ 
ception, but it must not too hastily be inferred that this is 
due to the iodine. M. Jolly has observed the behaviour of 
the disease on this farm since 1878. It did not appear for a 
period of nearly two years, from the commencement of 1878 
to December, 1879. If during that period M. Jolly had 
resorted to his preventive injections, he might reasonably 
have attributed the immunity to this, whereas facts show 
that the causative influences had simply ceased to act. 
M. Jolly thus describes his method of procedure :—“ I 
place the animal as for bleeding, having previously prepared 
the apparatus and the fluid for injection. The instrument, 
the canula, and the trocar, are tried with tepid water, to 
ensure their proper working. That done, I place in a clean 
glass, warmed by means of a stew-pan, equal parts of very 
pure tepid water and of solution of iodine prepared according 
to the formula of Sfanis Cezard (16 to 100). I fill the instru¬ 
ment with it, and this I have held by an intelligent assistant. 
Then the animal being supported as for bleeding, I place 
