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writer to mention it, in a few lines, describes it as a catarrh 

 of the nasal fossje and tissues bounding them. Benion gave 

 an account of some interesting cases, and Lafosse refers to 

 instances in which the nasal cavities were closed to the ex- 

 tent of preventing respiration except through the mouth, 

 which was constantly kept open. Leclainfche merely men- 

 tions the disease incidentally in his article on rachitis. In 

 1897, M. Petit exhibited the head of an affected hog before 

 the Societe Centrale de Medicine Veterinaire. Finally, in 

 1890, Struble described a case imder the name of "Osteo- 

 sarcoma of the jaws of a hog" that was an absolutely typical 

 example of sniffling disease. Dor and LeBlanc during 1901 

 several times drew the attention of veterinarians to the dis- 

 ease, and they found a microbe in the lesions that they re- 

 garded as the specific agent. 



On account of the numerous analogies, — clinical, ana- 

 tomo-pathological and bacteriological, — that exist between 

 sniffling disease and rhinoscleroma of man, the two patho- 

 logical states were compared. Dr. Grenier made this com- 

 parison the subject of his thesis at Lyons in 1901. In a re- 

 view published in 1890 by M. Joly, in the Presse Veterinaire, 

 the following information anent the existence of the disease 

 in Germany has been collected. Cases have been observed 

 by Haubner, Haubold and Harms. 1878, Schneider saw 

 cases which he regarded as nasal catarrh of traumatic ori- 

 gin. Harthmayer observed it in hogs of English breeds, 

 and Anacker claims that Schnufelkrankheit is but a malig- 

 nant nasal catarrh that has been • erroneously confounded 

 with osteomalacia. Hering advanced the opinion that the 

 disease is a combination of cachexia and scurvy. Freidber- 

 ger and Frohner, under the picturesque name of "schnufel- 

 krankheit" suggest in their work that the disease of the hog 

 is a proteiform affection that sometimes resembles rheuma- 

 tism and sometimes chronic nasal catarrh, either hsemor- 



