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enter the stable. After death the owner buried her as she was, 
with her skin, and would not allow a post-mortem inspection 
to take place. What to call the above case I hardly know, but 
suppose, malignant fever. 
I am, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Leek, May 17th, 1851. 
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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
f # / ii 
Bulletin de la Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire, 
publie par les Soins de son Bureau, et redige par M. H. 
Bouley, Secretaire Annuel. Annees 1844-45-46. Tom. Premier, 
Labe, Paris, 1827. — Bulletin of the Central Society of Veterinary 
Medicine, published under the Direction of its Committee, and 
edited by M. H. Bouley, the Annual Secretary. For the Years 
1844-5-6. Vol. I. Labe, Paris. 1847. 
[Continued from page 205.] 
On the Distemper ( Gourme ) m Horses. 
In our last article on the interesting subject before us, the 
Committee delegated to report upon M. Charlier’s “ memoir” 
confined their inquiries to an analysis of its contents. They 
now proceed to a critical investigation of them. And the first 
point of inquiry to which their attention is called is the title of 
the paper, viz. CATARRHAL DISTEMPERED ( gourmeuse ) IN- 
FLAMMATION. 
In order to enter on the discussion of this subject with a 
view to its satisfactory solution, there is a question which must 
necessarily be pre-considered, and it is one of the most difficult 
to answer in veterinary medicine; and that is, WHAT IS DIS- 
TEMPER] (gourme?) WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE 
Disease 1 
Is it, as the school of Broussais taught, and as M. Charlier 
himself seems implicitly to admit, no more than an inflammation 
of the aerial passages, a rhinitis, a pharyngitis, a bronchitis, of 
the same nature as inflammations of the same tissue and orgasm 
caused by direct irritation ] Or is there, in this affection, a nescio 
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