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positive, as the one he reported which was characterized by an 
eruption upon the right cheek, with angioleucitis and sub-glossal 
abscess, though the inoculations were made on the pituitary mucous 
membrane. 
It is doubtful if M. Charles Martin appreciates all the facts 
of this experiment ; he did not have the idea of assimilating the 
eruption on the cheek of his subject with horse-pox ; our readers 
themselves might think that the experiment does not prove the 
identity of gourme and vaccine: therefore I only present it at 
this time as a presumptive proof, reserving to myself the opportu¬ 
nity to give, further on, an irrefragable proof of the truth. 
As to the two negative results, they may be due to the fact 
that the pus used in the inoculation was obtained from animals 
which had passed beyond the period of virulency—a point to be 
looked into by other experiments. 
M. Martin has also succeeded in transmitting horse-variola by 
a plug of oakum impregnated with muco-pus, carefully rubbed 
over the nasal membrane. 
These results I will discuss in another paper. 
And now, to terminate this subject of inoculution of gourme, 
I may briefly mention one of the numerous experiments I made 
some time ago, to prove that this disease is essentially horse-pox , 
and that it furnishes the vaccine matter. 
Last year, a five-year old horse, bought within four or five 
days, was placed under treatment, presenting the general symp¬ 
toms of a slight fever, and the special signs of angina; dull¬ 
ness, anorexia, serous and almost transparent discharge from both 
nostrils, especially the left. In examining attentively, as I al¬ 
ways do now, all the surface of the skin, I found under the supe¬ 
rior lip first, and then on the ribs and the croup, several small 
pustules, well marked, which satisfied me that I had to deal with 
horse-variola, and not with a single inflammatory angina. 
I inoculated a cow with the serosity from the nostrils of that 
horse, with eight punctures on the perineum, and five days later I 
had eight beautiful pustules. Two days later a midwife of Al- 
fort vaccinated several children with the liquid of one of those 
pustules, and every child had a superb vaccination, which also 
