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observed them, and in all the cases dampness has contributed to 
the propagation of the cryptogam. 
The lymphatic constitution in an animal is eminently pro¬ 
pitious to the development of canker, as it is observed to be, in 
fact, for all parasitic diseases. 
It is known by daily observation of facts that horses whose 
skin is thick, with the hairy system well developed, the feet flat, 
with thick frogs, are more often affected with canker than 
animals of a nervous constitution. It is more particularly 
observed in horses with much white at their extremities, with 
stockings and white feet, and in those where there is a tendency 
to albinism. 
An unknown diathesis has also been considered as causing a 
predisposing constitutional organic condition, but this has not 
been justified by observation. It may happen that canker cured 
or dried on one foot, may attack another foot, perhaps a third, 
and then a fourth, to re-appear in the first; this character of the 
disease has often been mentioned a proof of this diathesic con¬ 
dition ; but it may also be explained by its contagious character. 
The disease remains too much localized to be constitutional, as 
generally in diathesic diseases we have critical eruptions upon 
different organs or different tissues. 
{ To be continued .) 
RESUMED STUDY IN ANTHRAX. 
CONSIDERED FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SANITARY POLICE. 
By Prof. Dessart. 
Cteneralities. —The name of carbuneular disease has been, 
until lately, applied to numerous affections having some common 
characters, but different in their nature. This application of an 
improper name to diseases which, in reality, are not anthrax, 
might have given rise to serious difficulties in the matter of san¬ 
itary medicine, especially in leading to errors in the administration 
of justice, in the imposition of the fines imposed by provisions of 
the Penal Code. Fortunately the obscurity which surrounded 
