1889.J Schwdne-Seuche aud the ''Swine Plague y 895 
complication, while intestinal are conspicuous by their absolute 
absence. 
Nowhere do we find any description of any such organism as 
the hog-cholera germ being mixed up with the Schweine-seuche 
There is, however, another side to this question, and as I am 
not writing as an advocate, but as an honest searcher for the 
truth, it is but right to present it here. It has been previously 
mentioned that Roloff described intestinal lesions the exact 
counterpart of those frequently met with in the true American 
swine plague, and that Schutz, in 1886, thought that they might 
also belong to the Schweine-seuche. 
It is also known that Schutz looked upon the " Schweine-pest " 
of Denmark as identical with the English " swine fever," and 
our true swine plague or hog-cholera, and that he did not think 
it identical with the Schweine-seuche, and that he did think 
intestinal lesions its chief characteristic in contradistinction to 
the pathognomonic pulmonary lesions of the Schweine-seuche 
is evident when he says the " ScJnveinepest is a disease of the 
digestive tract, by which especially the csecum and colon are 
complicated." — B. & F., 1. c, p. 434. 
This certainly should go to show that Schutz had no actual 
knowledge of any swine disease in Germany with marked intes- 
tinal lesions up to the date of publication, July 3, 1889, or else 
those authors would have known of it, except the historical de- 
scription of Roloff's in 1875. 
Since B. and F.'s contribution, however, — in fact very recently 
— there have been published in Germany,^ some observations 
which again describe the presence of the lesions observed by 
Roloff in a most exact manner, and, singular to say, with scarcely 
any mention of pulmonary, complications being present. 
From the title selected by Peters, " Schweine-seuche," and 
from the entire context, it is very evident that he came to the 
same conclusion which I did on first reading Schiitz's descrip- 
tions, for he quotes Schutz on this subject as follows : " In an- 
