220 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



and Police as an eruptive vesico-pustular malady, generally 

 diffused in the different parts of the world inhabited by 

 the horse. With the exception of the case mentioned at page 

 193, I have never witnessed anything approaching to variola in 

 the horse. 



It appears, however, that the eruption, preceded by a very 

 slight, almost imperceptible, degree of fever, may appear on the 

 skin at different parts, or over the whole body, on tlie nasal and 

 buccal mucous membranes, and occasionally on the conjunctivae. 



The nasal eruption not only involves the Schneiderian mem- 

 brane, but the nostrils and lips, and is apt to become confluent 

 on the lips and the inferior parts of the limbs. 



The contagium of the variola is transmissible from horse to 

 horse, to the cow and to mankind, by contact and inoculation, 

 but not by infection. 



Variola equinee appears to be a very mild and benignant 

 disease ; and as Dr. Fleming's work contains a full description, 

 the reader is referred to it, as well as for descriptions of the goat- 

 pox (variola caprinse), porcine pox (variola suillae), variola 

 caninffi, and the variola of fowls. Professor M'Eachran, of the 

 Montreal Veterinary College, reports in the Veterinary Journal, 

 August 1877, an outbreak of equine variola in Montreal in 

 "February and March of that year. 



