STUDY ON CRIBBING-CAUSES-PREVENTION AND CURE. l4l 
which does not seem to trouble the henltli of the animal. It is 
remarkable that the abscess is also due to the microbe of cholera, 
which is there in a state of preservation, but unable to propagate ; 
no doubt because the hen is vaccinated. It can be separated from 
the pus of the abscess by culture or by inoculation to fresh hens, 
which it kills, after developing itself in the ordinary way in the 
region inoculated. These facts remind us forcibly of the abscess 
of the Guinea pigs of which I spoke in my last communication, 
and gave for those a rational explanation. It is very likely that 
as the muscles of the pigs cultivating the microbe more slowly 
and with more difficulty than those of hens, the disease limits 
itself to an abscess accordingly, and recovery becomes possible. 
I fear to abuse the patience of the Academy by continuing 
longer, and feel it my duty to bring my remarks to an end, for 
the present. The subject is so serious and important, that I will 
request permission to postpone to future lecture, the compte rendu 
of other observations which I have collected, or may collect. 
Lavoisier has said, “Nothing would be offered to the public, if 
one would wait to have reached the end of the field which succes¬ 
sively presents itself, and which seems to extend as one advances 
to investigate it.” And again, it will not be without utility for 
me, if I am enlightened by the judgment of competent men, and 
thus subjected to a certain control which must confirm aud en¬ 
large these researches. 
STUDY ON CRIBBINO—CAUSES—MEANS OF PRE¬ 
VENTION AND CURE. 
BY M. CH. MARTIN. 
(Continued from page 97.) 
To place the straw, the hay and the oats in a box on the 
ground, at the feet of a cribber, is a good way to keep him from 
cribbing, and as simple as it is old, but it has its inconvenience; 
much of the food is soiled and lost, as the animal refuses then to 
take it. 
