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liable to impregnate the flesh and render it unfit for use 
as food. 
« (17) Thus we conclude that the disease with which we 
have been engaged has a great similarity, a most complete 
identity, with certain forms of cerebral congestion which 
attack animals of different species and of the two sexes, and 
even man himself. 
“ (18) It has nothing vitulary in its nature, still less any¬ 
thing puerperal; it is only a simple congestion of the 
encephalon, with or without haemorrhage, and sometimes 
with complications , the meninges or the spinal marrow 
becoming involved. 
“(19) Thus, the term vitulary fever does not serve to distin¬ 
guish a special disease, and, since it can only cause confusion 
of the ideas and studies of veterinarians, ought to be erased 
from nosological lists, or, at least, ought only to be considered 
as synonymous with cerebral congestion developed under those 
special circumstances we have endeavoured to indicate.” 
It will be seen that these opinions differ remarkably from 
the conclusions of other continental observers, but agree to 
an extent with those which have received the sanction of 
Barlow and Williams and some others in this country. They 
are essentially opposed to the theory of the anaemic condition 
of the brain in parturient apoplexy, and, as being the out¬ 
come of careful examination of the subject, are well worthy 
of the attention of our readers. The paper upon which 
they are based is by a practitioner well known to the 
profession in France. M. Collin s of Wassy, contributes 
a paper on Contagious Humid Eczema of Bovines. On 25th 
June, 1879, M. Matrion, veterinary surgeon at Doulevant- 
le-Chateau, was called by M. Balbezier of Brachay, to attend 
a heifer, fifteen months old, with appetite defective. Explo¬ 
ration of the mouth enabled him to determine that it was 
affected with muguet (aphtha) ? Gargles with water strongly 
impregnated with salines produced a marked improvement, 
and on the 2nd of July the cure was nearly complete. On 
the 10th of the same month the owner perceived that the 
heifer showed in four situations,especially on the neck, thighs, 
udder, and the base of the ears, a very profuse sweating. The 
affected parts were the seat of an intense pruritus, and the 
animal continually rubbed them. The state of the atmo¬ 
sphere seemed to exercise a marked influence on the progress 
of the disease; from 10th to 24th of July the weather was 
rainy and the temperature low, and the disease remained 
in statu quo , but on the 24th the thermometer suddenly 
rose several degrees, and the disease progressed rapidly, 
