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Until the present time we have made the injections under the 
skin of the lateral face of the neck, and of the internal face of the 
neck. The animals were re-vaccinated after two weeks, with six 
drops of serosity, fresh from a tumor, and mixed with one cubic 
centimeter of water, to facilitate the inoculation. 
c. —So far, we have used the attenuated virus in three series 
of animals, viz., one lot of three sheep, one of three calves, and a 
third of a heifer of 18 or 20 months old, and a cow of four years. 
In bovines the inoculations have produced a slight local tume¬ 
faction, which disappeared by degrees ; in sheep, a large swelling. 
The first inoculation was followed by an elevation of tempera¬ 
ture from 0.2 to 0.7; the second, an hyperthemia from 0.5 to 1. 
Sometimes the higher elevation was noticed after the first inoc¬ 
ulation. All these animals were vaccinated with success. 
Inoculated at the same time with others, kept as witnesses, with 
natural virus, they presented slight and insignificant accidents, 
while the others had severe and almost always fatal sequelae. 
We may notice the great resistance of the microbe of sympto¬ 
matic anthrax to heat, after a first graduated desiccation at 32°. 
We have observed in the same condition an analagous resistance 
to the action of the antiseptics. It is proper to observe, at the 
same time, that virulent serosities contain specially sporulated 
batonnets and that their number increases very much pending the 
duration of the first operation, so that the heat acts upon a virus 
very rich in spores. These observations served us as guiding ideas 
in the researches which we have just disclosed .—Gazette Medicatei 
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A CASE OF D1STOKIA IN A MARE—DORSO-SACRAL PRESENTATION- 
LACERATION OF THE PERINEUM—RECOVERY. 
By J. B. Galt, V. S. 
A messenger came to my house early one morning and said 
that he had a mare that could not foal, and he thought she was 
about dying. I hurried to see the patient, as she was a valuable 
animal. Arriving at the place I found tlm case to be one of dis- 
tokia. The mare was down on her right side, unable to rise or to 
