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dog began to lose his appetite, and soon refused all food. Ema¬ 
ciation made rapid progress before long, and he had a severe 
cough. Auscultation revealed, in the greater part of the chest, 
the existence of moist, mingled with sonorous and sibilant rale. 
The general condition grew worse for eight or ten days, when 
the animal was taken with convulsive fits, lasting about five min¬ 
utes, and occurring several times a day. The poor animal was 
then destroyed with prussic acid. 
At post-mortem there were found recent adhesions of the two 
pleura; the lungs were filled with nuclei of softening, presenting 
the different periods of caseous degeneration; the bronchia were 
filled with purulent matter. The bronchial ganglions were not 
examined. 
The meninges seemed thickened, and when divided allowed 
the escape of some serosity. They were free from tuberculous 
deposits .—British Medical Journal. 
NEW EXPERIMENTS UPON THE CULTURE OF BACTERIAS OF 
ANTHRAX IN EARTH. 
By M. Colin. 
The resume of the work is as follows : 
1st. Sixty-one animals have with impunity, and at four differ¬ 
ent times, during the summer or fall of the year, eaten the whole 
of the grass which had grown on the ground where sixty carbun- 
cular cadavers had been buried, from the end of March to the end 
of July. 
2d. Eleven animals had also, with no less impunity, partaken 
of the oats and hay moistened with the water which had been 
used in washing the earth taken from and mixed with large 
amounts of detritus of those cadavers. 
3d. Seven animals penned during 4, 5, 6,12 and 15 days upon 
cadavers of anthrax, buried to a slight depth, have taken their 
food always covered with the dirt and earth which may be sup¬ 
posed to be loaded with the virulent element. Besides, four other 
