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rhag-ic or purulent, and finally that it is tuberculous or ac- 

 tinomycostic in character. Only a few years ago, Imminger 

 published a new study of the disease, in which he claims 

 that schnufelkrankheit of the hog is a perfectly characteris- 

 tic disease, observed in different forms in Bavaria. He re- 

 gards it as an infectious rhinitis. Under the name of rachi- 

 tis, Wulf describes lesions absolutely characteristic of this 

 disease. 



In France, sniffling disease appears to exist in several 

 parts of the country. Information gathered on the subject 



Fig. 108. 

 Aspect of a Culture in Bouillon after Forty-Eight Hours (570 Diameters). 



(LeBlanc). 



shows it to be frequent in Ardennes, L'Ain, LaNievre and 

 L'Indre, and we owe our correspondents an argument on 

 its microbian nature. In the Department of La Nievre the 

 disease was rare fifteen years ago, but during the past three 

 or four years the cases have been more numerous, and the 

 mortality is increasing. When the disease first makes its 

 appearance in the pigsty it can frequently be traced to the 

 importation of animals from infected herds., 



EXPERIMENTAL STUDY.— The tissues harbor a 

 thick, short bacillus, found by microscopic examinations of 

 scrapings of the fibrous tumor stained with a hydro-alco- 



