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one thoracic, and one abdominal. These three forms corre¬ 
spond to those of influenza; the only change is in the 
name. 
If it were necessary to justify what has been stated relative 
to the confusion that exists in the nosology of this disease, 
the memoir which has for its motto, “ II rdy a pas d’eJJ'et sans 
cause /’ would furnish ample proof. The author begins by de¬ 
claring that he could not give a term which would apply to 
the various forms and complications of this affection, as the 
serous membranes, principally those of the chest, with the 
mucous membranes of the digestive and respiratory organs 
and the liver, are either simultaneously or alternately affected. 
Thus the fever, the acceleration of the pulse and the respira¬ 
tion, the pain the animal feels on the compression of the 
chest, the icteric tinge of the visible mucous membranes, are 
the index of the catarrhal and rheumatical forms. And 
although the catarrh of the respiratory passages is not an occult 
malady, the signs which indicate it are not here mentioned. 
When to these phenomena there is added abdominal pain, 
it is metamorphosed into gastro-rheumatismal; when there is 
swelling of the glands under the jaw, the lymphatic element 
complicates the disease. The author further states that 
influenza is an erysipelous fever of the respiratory and 
digestive mucous membrane, depending on a bilo-gastric 
state. 
The commission thinks that these considerations suffice to 
indicate the merits of this memoir, which they style as “ nulls 
indigestaque moles ” 
In referring to the second memoir, they express a satisfac¬ 
tion in reading it. The author begins by the remark that 
in the names given to the many maladies of man and animals 
few are proper, while many of them are even ridiculous; but 
that custom has consecrated them as much on the part of 
the learned profession as of the vulgar. Those denomina¬ 
tions which do not obstruct the study of the malady may re¬ 
main, the others should be allowed to fall into desuetude. It 
is, however, otherwise when the names used convey notions of 
different maladies, and tend to confound them. In the present 
century, the describing under the vulgar name of influenza a 
number of diverse affections has furnished a convincing proof 
of th ehorribili modo, and the serious inconvenience of this abuse, 
quam noxium hac sit . The author calls influenza a common 
malady to man and animals. Comparative pathology, he adds, 
shows that in the affection of the different species there is 
only a variation, the vitality being the same, and also regulated 
by the same organic laws. If we compare the lesion of the 
