to have studied the disease in Burma about the same 

 time, and their experiences are embodied in a pamphlet 

 edited by Pease in 1897, who gives a detailed account 

 of Moore's cases, but confounds them with another 

 disease, viz., 'Ulcerative Lymphangitis.' In later 

 years the disease has been studied by Lingard in 

 India (see Annual Report, 1 900-1 901), and quite recently 

 articles have appeared in the Veterinary Journals by 

 Holmes, Martin, Brodie-Mills, Hunting, MacFadyean, 

 Head, Butler, Cranford, and others, and a small note on 

 the disease also appears in Hayes's Translation of Fried- 

 herger and Fr'dhner^ Vol. I, at the end of the chapter on 

 glanders, and Hayes also gives a short account of the 

 disease in his last edition of Veterinary Notes for Horse 

 Owners. Since the foregoing remarks were penned, I 

 find that Law in his new work, recently published, Bow- 

 hill in his book on Bacteriological Technique, and Williams 

 in his last edition of Veterinary Surgery, also describe the 

 disease, but the clearest accounts of it have been written 

 by the French veterinarians, Ed. Nocard and E. 

 Leclainche, in their Les Maladies Microbiennes des 

 Animaux, Vol. II, and by Tokishige in a pamphlet on 

 Japanese Farcy^ dated May, 1897, and it is from these 

 two last works that most of the information as regards 

 the history and early experiments on the disease have 

 been obtained. 



Nature of the Disease 



Epizootic lymphangitis is a virulent inoculable 

 disease, characterized by suppuration of the superficial 

 and subcutaneous lymphatic vessels, due to the 

 presence of a specific organism. The disease is observed 

 almost exclusively in solipeds, but Tokishige reports 

 having seen it affecting cattle in Japan. 



