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ability of Mr. Billings, his love for the profession, his ambition 
for its elevation, and his well nourished desire for the establish¬ 
ment of a national veterinary institution, we can look with antic¬ 
ipated assurance upon the pleasant and profitable pages which 
the Journal will hereafter lay before its readers. 
PATHOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGY, 
UPON THE CULTURE OF THE MICROBE OF GLANDERS, AND 
UPON THE TRANSMISSION OF THE DISEASE BY THE LIQUIDS 
OF CULTURE. 
By Messrs. Bouchard, Capitan and Charrier. 
(Continued from Page 474.) 
This series of experiments must remove any existing doubt 
upon the question of both the fact and the virulency of the 
liquid of the fifth culture of the matter from a nasal ulcer, an 
inoculation of this liquid having given rise in a first cat to a 
disease which proved fatal; the same disease transmitted to a 
second cat also having proved fatal; the disease of this last, in¬ 
oculated to a third cat, being also followed by death in the same 
manner; a similar result being obtained in a guinea pig inoculated 
with the bloody serosity escaping from the nostrils of this third 
cat; and at last the glanderous nature of the disease communi¬ 
cated to the guinea-pig from the cats, and which had killed him, 
being proved in the most evident manner, by the effects of the 
inoculation of a donkey with the matter taken from a pulmonary 
abscess in the guinea-pig, and in less than ten days this donkey 
dying of acute glanders, with a peculiar eruption in his lungs, of 
the peculiar species of nodules, known formerly as metastatic ab¬ 
scess. 
The report of this series of experiments is taken from a paper 
of no less than sixty observations, all of them showing the remark¬ 
able aptitude of the organism of the guinea-pig to serve as a me¬ 
dium of culture for the glanderous virus, whether it be inoculated 
in the natural state or in the state of purity obtained through 
successive cultures and carried to the eighth generation ; a point 
at which the experiments were terminated. But it imports little 
