EPIZOOTIC LYMPHANGITIS 



Introduction 



IN offering the following small work on this interest- 

 ing subject to the public, I wish to explain that 

 although I have not yet published anything about 

 epizootic lymphangitis, I have nevertheless been collect- 

 ing data and had some considerable experience of the 

 disease in various parts of the world since the year 1 899, 

 when 1 first came in contact with it at a remount depot 

 in Northern India, where I had to deal with a very large 

 outbreak for some fourteen months. Since then 1 have 

 observed the disease in China in 1 900-1 901, Japan in 

 1 90 1 in the form of preserved pathological and bacterio- 

 logical specimens. In India again in 1902, and in 

 Ireland in 1903 and 1904. 



Literature on the Disease 



Until quite recently very little had been written 

 about the disease, at least, so far as English literature is 

 concerned, and even now, a good clear concise account of 

 the disease is not yet to be found in any of our standard 

 books, although the disease has been recognized in 

 England amongst army horses returning from South 

 Africa since 1902, and since last autumn in Ireland also 

 amongst army horses, and recently in London and 

 other centres in England amongst private animals. 

 The earliest reports I can find on the subject in English 

 were made by Moore (in the Veterinary Record {or 1 896) 

 who apparently had some cases of the disease amongst 

 government horses in Bengal in 1894. Evans appears 



