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after Pasteur’s method gives a reddish liquid, which produces 
no effect oil inoculation. 55 
“ Conclusions .—1. The ( symptomatic charbon 5 of bovines 
is communicable by inoculation to the ox and to some other 
animals. 2. It is transmitted by a microbium which de¬ 
velops in the muscular and connective tissues of the tumour, 
but is rare, or even absent from the blood. Therefore it 
must be sought for, in the tumour especially, for purposes of 
inoculation. 3. This microbium is retained by the porcelain 
filter. 4. By its characters, the effects it produces, and the 
species of animals adapted for its support, it differs much 
and sharply from Bacillus anthracis. 5. Hence black-leg of 
the ox must not be confused with splenic fever in the group 
of anthracoid disorders. 5 "’ 
“ We will pursue our researches, and in a later note will 
make known our results with regard to the histological cha¬ 
racters of the microbium and its importance from a medical 
point of view.' 5 It will be satisfactory to those of us who 
remember that recently M. Perro7icito was superseded in his 
determination of the true nature and pathological value of 
the microbium of fowl cholera by Toussamt, to find that 
that excellent observer, in the same number of the Recueil 
which contains the paper by the French worker, advances his 
claim to the discovery of the Bacteria of quarter-ill as long 
ago as 1872. It will be seen that he observed and described 
this organism as accurately as MM. Cornevin, Thomas, and 
Arloing. He noted that it is distinct from Bacillus an¬ 
thracis, but failed in transmitting the disease by inoculation. 
He also claims to have seen organisms in the blood. This 
organism, which he names Bacterium carbunculare , has un¬ 
doubtedly been made known to science by the labours of 
Perroncito, as the following extracts from his paper will 
show: 
These are the observations which I published on the 
\0th January , 1873, in the first number of the Economia 
Bur ale, of Turin, being at that time attached to the public 
abattoir service of that town .... On 20th May, 1872, a calf 
suffering from black-quarter was slaughtered, and in the 
blood-plasma we observed almost round granules, few in 
number, and with a well-marked movement .... The 
blackish liquid expressed from the diseased parts, and ex¬ 
amined twenty-five minutes after the death of the calf, con¬ 
tained a great number of Bacteria, presenting special 
characters, and worthy of note. They were shaped like 
short fine rods, unjointed, and most of them bearing, at one 
of their extremities a rounded granule, of the same diameter 
