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forty respirations per minute (Butzert) ; the icterus is more or less 

 marked ; defecation is rare ; the dungs, which are small, are cov- 

 ered with a mucus exhaling a putrid odor. The micturitions are 

 frequent and very small. These symptoms persist without great 

 modification during about one week, then recovery is complete after 

 sixteen to twenty-one days. No case of death has yet been reported. 

 As accessory and inconstant manifestations, we must mention (after 

 Butzert): slight colics, a thick orange-colored nasal discharge;, 

 circumscribed scabs (of the size of a silver dollar) of the lingual 

 mucous membrane, mummification (dry gangrene) of the skin of the 

 forehead, a cutaneous inflammation with exudation of a yellowish 

 liquid, also formation of scabs and elimination of the epidermis, an 

 inflammation observed upon the lower lip as well as on the pasterns, 

 and which is accompanied by an œdematous tumefaction of the 

 limbs coming up as far as the knee and hock. 



Addenda. The symptoms assigned to lupinosis may be pro- 

 duced by other diseases which are very little known, but which are 

 not due to the ingestion of lupin. One of these aflectioJS which 

 most resembles lupinosis has been observed, by Haubner, upon 

 sheep which were fed on malted potatoes, and described by this 

 author under the name of "malignant icterus'' or "typhic hepa- 

 titis."^ The reading of the monogram of the Dresden professor 

 gives the impression of a perfect identity of these two diseases, and 

 in the last edition of Haubner's book they are described in one 

 chapter by Siedamgrotzky. The " hepatic typhus of the horse 

 studied by Sander ^ recalls in every point acute lupinosis, and yet 

 this aflection is attributed to the injurious action of the inundated 

 pastures. Eeinemann, Jansen ^ and several other practitioners assert 

 that pea, bean, and vetch-stubble sometimes produce a condition 

 which is similar to lupinosis. 



The clinical picture of chronic lupinosis recalls equally that of 

 induration of the liver or "Sweinsberg disease'' (chronic hepatitis)^ 



Finally, the morbid condition known under the name of " clover 

 disease" has much similarity with lupinosis; we have therefore 

 mentioned it with this latter trouble. 



1 Haubner : Landwirthschaftl. Thierheilkde. 

 3 Sander: Hering's Pathologie, 1858. 

 * Reinemann and Jansen : Preuss. Mittheil., 1880-81. 



