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zinc and one part of boracic acid (1 teaspoonful per cow) ; Gallia 

 advises the introduction of bacillol capsules into the vagina. 



Veterinary Police. The most important measures for the 

 prevention of the spread of the disease consist in the exclusion 

 of the affected animals from breeding during their disease. The 

 infectiousness of the animals may be considered extinct when 

 all inflammatory manifestations of the genital organs and the 

 discharge have disappeared, and the mucous membrane has 

 regained its former smoothness and pale red color. During a 

 general prevalence of the disease, the prohibition of breeding 

 is indicated until the disappearance of the disease in the affected 

 localities. 



Literature. Hertwig, Mag., 1842, VIII, 260; 1847, XIII, 376.— Spinola, Spez. 

 Path., 1858, IV, 14S6.— Hamni, D. Z. f. Tm., 1901, XVII, 147.— Kampmaim, O. Ee- 

 vue, 1887, 81.— Fenner, Monh., 1891, II, 196.— Ehrhardt, Schw., A., 1896, XXXVIII, 

 79.— Streit, B. t. W., 1901, 496.— Nocard & Leclainche, Mai. microb., 1903, I, 598, 



Infectious Sexual Disease in Rabbits and Hares. Friedberger & 

 Frohner observed an infectious disease of the external genital organs 

 (vulva, preputium) in a rabbit breeding estal)lishment, which was char- 

 acterized by swelling of these parts, and by a muco-purulent discharge. 

 Treatment continued for weeks, with a 1 to 2% copper sulphate solution, 

 resulted finally in recovery. (Spez. Path. 1908, II, 496.) 



A similar disease in rabbits was noted by Strangeways, only that 

 in this case ulcerations developed on the genitals, and also on the lips 

 and nostrils. The autopsv revealed abscesses of the internal organs 

 (J. of comp. Path., 1906, XIX, 9). 



4. Infectious Pustular Stomatitis of Horses. Stomatitis pusto- 

 losa contagiosa equorum. 



Infectious pustular stomatitis is a benign, acute febrile 

 infectious disease of horses, which aside from its pronounced 

 contagious nature, is principally characterized by a pustular 

 exanthema of the mucous membrane of the moutli. The caus- 

 ative factor is at present unknown. 



History. The disease was first described under the present name 

 by Eggeling & Ellenberger (1880), as an independent affection. For- 

 merly it was identified with foot-and-mouth disease of the cloven-footed 

 animals (Roll), or with coital exanthema (Hertwig), and again by some 

 authors (Gauthier, Silvestri, Flemming) was considered identical with 

 horse pox. Since the publications of the first mentioned authors, whose 

 observations were later confirmed by Friedberger, the independence of 

 the disease is generally recognized except in France and England, where 

 according to Bouley's conception it is even at the present considered 

 as horse pox (see pp. 801 and 324). 



Occurrence. The disease is observed especially in younger 

 horses, and mostly as a stable infection. Its economic impor- 

 tance lies in the fact that the affected horses are incapacitated 

 for work during its duration, and are poorly nourished. 



