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tendency to show that if some animals were refractory to the con¬ 
tagion or inoculation of anthrax it was due to their high temper¬ 
ature. Performing those experiments upon six hens, two pigeons, 
a cat and a dog, in which the temperature of the body had been 
diminished by cold baths, Prof. Colin arrives at the following 
conclusion : 
“ 1st. There is no constant connection between the normal 
temperature of these animals and their aptitude or non aptitude 
to contract anthrax. At equal degree some are, others are not 
apt to contract this affection. 
“ 2d. The artificial lowering of the temperature of the gallina¬ 
ceous to 40 degrees c. does no facilitate the development of 
anthrax, though at that temperature sheep, rabbits, and other 
species'will develop it with rapidity. 
3d. The lowering of the temperature at 38 and 37 degrees, in 
carnivorous such as adult cats and dogs, is also powerless in the 
development of the disease. 
4th. The cutaneous or sub-cutaneous low temperature exagger¬ 
ated even by denudation or cold bath seem to have but little in¬ 
fluence upon the manifestation of the accidents on the parts where 
the virus has been inserted .—Archives Veterinaires. 
A PLEA FOR VETERINARY SURGERY. 
Abstract from the Report of the Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture. 
BY PROF. J. LAW, F.R.C.V.S. 
SEPARATE AND CONJOINED STUDY OF THE MEDICINE OF MAN AND ANIMALS. 
We have seen that in the days of Hippocrates medicine was to 
a large extent one, the physician was, in many cases, a veterina¬ 
rian as well, and took lessons in anatomy, physiology, pathology, 
and therapeutics from his practice on the lower animals. For 
many, this catholicity of feeling and action produced a breadth of 
