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Besides showing the importance of the results thus obtained, 
M. Pasteur says that during the last six weeks 13,000 sheep, 
3,500 oxen, and 20 horses were vaccinated, and that out of this 
number, 16,520 animals, not one accident has been observed.— 
Gazette Medicate. 
PASSAGE OF THE BACTERIDIE OF ANTHRAX. FROM THE MOTHER 
TO THE FCETUS. 
By Messrs. L. Straus and Ch. Chamberland. 
According to recent experiments, thy authors have found that 
the placenta does not form, as it was believed, an insurmountable 
barrier to the bacteridie, and the law of Brauell-Davaine, which 
generalizes an exception, is erroneous ; an error which, it must 
be acknowledged, was a fortunate one, and profitable to science, 
since it has furnished the parasitic theory of infectious diseases, 
one of the most apparently demonstrative arguments, when di¬ 
rect proofs were not as abundant as at present. 
The new notiou of the possibility of the passage of the bac¬ 
teridie of anthrax from the mother to the foetus, may serve to ex¬ 
plain certain cases of immunity, principally against anthrax, 
which seem to have been observed in some cases upon lambs, whose 
mothers had received vaccination while pregnant. And again, 
the non-constancy of this passage may explain also why, in a few 
cases, this immunity does not exist; and, finally, some person 
having observed in flocks of mothers vaccinated during pregnancy 
(ewes and cows), cases of abortion, there is reason to ask if these 
were not due to the intra-uterine contamination of the foetus by 
the vaccinal bacteridie, which would have killed the foetus when 
the more robust mother would have recovered from it .—Gazette 
Medicate. 
UPON THE CULTURE OF THE MICROBE OF GLANDERS, AND UPON 
THE TRANSMISSION OF THE DISEASE BY THE LIQUIDS OF CUL¬ 
TURE. 
By Messrs. C. Bouchard, Capitan and Charren. 
After M. Christal & Kiener, who first, in 1868, had mentioned 
the presence of microbes in the products of glanders, the authors 
