American Veterinary Review, 
FEBRUARY, 1884. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
DU CHARBON BACTERIEN, 
Charbon symptomatique et charbon essentiel de Chabert, par 
M.M. Arloing, Cornevin et Thomas. Paris, 1883. 
Reviewed by R. S. Huidekoper, M.D., V".S. 
Symptomatic Anthrax , Quarter 111 , Blackleg , etc. 
Any publication in veterinary medicine is usually welcomed 
by the public; but it is rare that we have to review a book with 
so much pleasure as we have had in this accurate and complete 
practical solution of a disease which our ancestors knew was not 
anthrax, and yet could only classify with it. It must also flatter 
the vanity of every veterinary surgeon to see from the hands of 
his colleagues a biological study which is crowned by the scien¬ 
tific world, and is placed on a par with that of Koch or Pasteur. 
Two of the authors are comparatively little known, but Mr. 
Arloing will be recognized as the colaborator of the great 
Chauveau in the third edition of his Anatomy, and working 
under such a master, has had advantages which few have the 
time to obtain. The authors review the diseases described by the 
classic writers and those of the middle ages, and show that this 
disease existed then, under the name of anthrax, as geese, fowls 
and hoffs were included among the animals attacked. The first 
accurate description of the disease is given by Boissier in 1768. 
