TRANSLATIONS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
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TRANSLATIONS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL PATHOLOGY. 
UPON THE CULTURE OF THE MICROBE OF SMALL-POX IN SHEEP 
By M. H. Toussaint 
In 1863, Beale observed germs in small-pox. Hallier and 
Zurn, in 1867, saw them in the pustules of that disease as well as 
in the blood. Chauveau in 1868, in his study of viruses, noticed 
that the contagion of small-pox takes place by the peculiar par¬ 
ticles which are found in the pustules. Lastly, Coze and Feltz, 
Klebs, Cohn, Keber, Weiger and several others have also seen a 
micrococcus in the serosity of the pustules, in the blood and in the 
secretions. But amongst these authors the interpretation of the 
fact differs. Thus Hallier writes that the micrococcus is a term 
of a generation between two fungi the Pospororle Herbariaum and 
the Rhizopus Nigricans. Zurn assimilates it to the micrococcus 
of the variola of man. He has seen in them threads which assist 
their motion, and particularly locates them in the cul de sac of 
the glands of the hair follicles. Cohn was nearer the truth. He 
has observed spores of Yiooo of a millimeter and bacteries in balls 
( Kugelbacterien ) of the group of the Schizomycetea. Nowhere 
have I seen that the microbe has been cultured. 
This disease gives rise to serious danger in some parts of France, 
but especially lately on the coast of the Mediterranian Sea. Brought 
by African sheep, in which it is harmless, it spreads rapidly, and 
is accompanied witli loss of 60 to 70 per 100. 
The disease lasts at least thirty-five days. It is almost im¬ 
possible, on account of the number of animals imported,* and the 
*In 1878 the number of sheep imported from Algeria to France was 733,- 
000. It keeps increasing every year. 
