immediately challenged by Tixier and Delamotte, who 

 were misled by the co-existence of glanders amongst 

 their patients, and they finally concluded that African 

 farcy was identical with glanders (farcy) and, in this 

 respect, history has repeated itself over and over again, 

 as both in India in 1899, and in South Africa during 

 the recent war, the disease was confounded with glanders, 

 and in many cases for that very same reason, viz., the 

 co-existence of both diseases, the one recognized and 

 the other (being unfamiliar) not recognized until 

 recently, as a separate disease. In France the unity of 

 the different forms of flircy was acknowledged, and the 

 African farcy was considered to be an attenuated form 

 of glanders (farcy) until 1873, when Rivolta discovered 

 the organism, viz., a cryptococcus. 



In 1 88 1 Chenier wrote an article explaining 

 definitely the difference between farcy (glanders) and 

 farcy (lymphangitis), pointing out that the latter disease 

 only affects the lymphatic system and is not of the 

 same nature as glanders, and that experimental inocula- 

 tions of material from animals affected with the disease 

 never produces true glanders. Finally, in 1883, 

 Rivolta and Micellone published a paper containing a 

 precise account of the nature of the disease ; they 

 pointed out the constant presence in the pus from the 

 nodules and cords of a particular organism, already 

 described by Rivolta in 1873, in certain forms of farcy, 

 and they state that there exists amongst horses a variety 

 of farcy which may be called cryptococcic, 



(i) Because it is produced and develops from a 

 cryptococcus. 



(2) Because the cryptococcus is always to be found 

 in the abscesses and cords of the farcy. 



(3) Because the cryptococcus is also to be found 

 constantly in isolated pustules or originally 



