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distance. These might justly be called cases of stridulous 
laryngitis , or catarrhal croup. The cough was not so marked 
as the sonorous respiration, and the appetite of the animals 
was at first almost undisturbed. I am not aware that croup 
has been unusually prevalent in Aberdeenshire of late, but 
I trust to collect further information on the subject. 
Inoculation of the Typhoid Exudation of Man 
in Animals. — Dr. Bourguignon, believing that inoculation 
may be a preventive of typhoid fever, introduced some of 
the matter into the systems of a horse and a dog. The 
material was obtained from the intestinal ulcers, and from 
the diseased mesenteric glands. It induced ulcers, circum- 
scribed by a painful oedematous swelling, w 7 hich cicatrized 
very slowly. The matter from the mesenteric glands had a 
worse character than the other. 
It would be of considerable importance to decide whether 
the typhoid exudation was inoculable from man to animals. 
Is there any typhoid fever in the horse ? The Germans 
have spoken of it, and named it typhus. This is not 
surprising, when the typhoid or enteric fever of man is by 
many of them considered a true form of typhus. It is stated, 
that in the Vienna school, during the last quarter of 1854, 
twenty-four horses, affected with typhus, were admitted ; of 
these, six died, three were killed, six recovered, and ten 
remained under treatment. In one case of very speedy 
death, the post-mortem lesions were much like those of 
anthraxal fever, but in other instances typhoid exudations 
and scabs existed in the stomach and intestines, also in the 
nasal cavities, acute swellings of the spleen were met with, 
and infiltration and haemorrhages beneath the skin. 
We require more extensive and accurate data to judge of 
the value of these statements from the Vienna school. The 
ulcers of Peyer’s glands, and indeed all the lesions of typhoid 
diseases, occur in the cattle plague, known as the contagious 
typhus. There have been cases observed of ulcers of Peyer’s 
patches, perforation of the intestine, and death in the horse. 
It remains to be learned how frequently this disease, un- 
questionably typhoid, is met with. French and German 
veterinarians have described, under the head abdominal 
typhus, the epizootic staggers ; the prostration, and nervous 
symptoms being looked upon as characteristic of genuine 
typhus, but I have no hesitation in saying, from personal 
observation, that this is a mistake. 
I feel certain, that both typhus and typhoid maladies affect 
animals in Great Britain, but they are mistaken for other 
