462 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
see a few granules, which are isolated, mobile, and difficult 
to determine histologically, and rod-like bodies, which are 
still less frequent. But, under conditions other than those 
of ordinary observation, the blood is full of corpuscles, ovoid, 
highly refractive, separate, or aggregated into chains of 
two or three, and of short and freely movable rod-like 
bodies. These are very numerous in the serosity of the 
tumour, but also are present in considerable number in the 
inter- and intra-muscular connective tissue, as well as within 
the contractile fibres of the tumour. They also may be found 
in the lungs, spleen, kidneys, and lymphatic glands. The 
Bacterium stationed in these organs, whence it may be re¬ 
moved by scraping, differs from the anthrax Bacterium in 
its objective and biological characters, and in its pathological 
effects. It is shorter and larger, is freely movable, rounded 
at each extremity, and has near one of them, but never at 
the centre, a bright nucleus, which is not invariably present. 
With the tissues of the tumour and distilled water we have 
obtained a pulp rich in Bacteria; when injected into the 
thickness of the muscles or into the subcutaneous areolar 
tissue it causes disorders which vary in characters and im¬ 
portance, according to the seat of inoculation and the species 
of the animal inoculated. Our inoculations constantly pro¬ 
duced death of the calf and the sheep in thirty to sixty hours. 
They produced warm and painful oedema of the part when 
injected subcutaneously, the swelling being crepitant, espe¬ 
cially in the calf, and extending gradually into the dependent 
parts ; injection into the muscles caused the appearance of a 
tumour resembling that which occurs spontaneously. Guinea- 
pigs inoculated almost always die. We have seen one de¬ 
velop an enormous swelling, which ended in the sponta¬ 
neous bursting of two abscesses, the virus having already 
passed through the system of several subjects. It produces 
local effects (gangrenous eschars) on white rats; life is jeo¬ 
pardised, but generally the animal survives. The rabbit, 
inoculated with the pulp of a tumour of an ox, collected 
some hours before death, died, presenting the local signs of 
quarter ill; but the pulp prepared from the tumour of an ox 
two days after death, or from the fresh tumour of the sheep, 
generally produced only abscess and sometimes pyaemic 
accidents/’ 
“ The ass and horse resist inoculations ; they only have a 
local engorgement of the muscles, and the neighbouring 
areolar tissue painful and warm for a few days, but which 
thoroughly disappears. The dog and the fowl seem to en¬ 
tirely resist the microbium of quarter-ill. The pulp filtered 
