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caused by the BaciUus anthracis , and that the contagium, or 
virus, consists of this alone. 
None of the later investigators, so far as I am aware, have 
published a single experiment to show that the above facts, ob¬ 
served by Koch,* were in any degree doubtful or unreliable; on 
the contrary, they have been confirmed in a remarkable manner 
by Cohn, Pasteur, Toussaint, Greenfield, Buchner and others. 
In this article I have purposely avoided any reference to 
those observations which, it is asserted, conflict with the conclu¬ 
sion that charbon is caused by this bacterium. It is simply my 
object, at present, to make it clear that the organism and the 
virus are one and the same thing, and I believe that any unpreju¬ 
diced scientific man must accept this conclusion as necessarily fol¬ 
lowing from the above facts. At another time I may take up 
the observations which are believed by some to conflict with this 
view. 
UPON THE VIRULENT CONDITION OF THE FCETUS IN THE EWE, 
DEAD FROM SYMPTOMATIC ANTHRAX. 
By M. M Arloing, Conerin and Thomas. 
From the experiments of Davaine, it is known that upon the 
female affected with Sang de Rate, the infectious agent does not 
reach the foetus. 
What takes place in the case where the female is affected 
with symptomatic anthrax ? The authors have found on this 
point, a new difference to add to those that they have already 
observed between the two diseases. 
Indeed, it is shown by the observations they have gathered, 
that the young animal is affected in utero , with symptomatic 
anthrax, with muscular infractus, oedema, virulent blood, and 
microbes ; in other words, with the lesions observed in adults.— 
Gazette Medicate. 
* Dr. Koch, Die Aetiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begriindet auf die Ent- 
wicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus Anthracis. Beitraqe zur Biologic der Pflanzen- 
2nd Band, 2ud Heft. Breslau, 1>76. 
