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ox, the dog, the sheep, and the pig, we only meet with those 
variations which are founded on the difference of their or¬ 
ganization. 
The author designates by the term influenza a disease in 
every respect similar to influenza in the human subject. He 
claims, in favour of Falk, the priority of having been the first 
to establish this identity, and he then reproduces the descrip¬ 
tion of the epizootic catarrh, which Falk observed in 1840 in 
the stables of Prince Schw^arzburg Riidolstadt. The author 
confirms his opinion by citing the account of Hertwig of the 
epizootic of 1851 which prevailed in Berlin, and which w 7 as 
not fatal. This account shows that between influenza and 
the many complications to which the name of influenza has 
been given, there is no correlativeness of etiology, the epizo¬ 
otic catarrh having entirely disappeared when the pleuro- 
pneumonic hepatitis appeared. From this the author passes 
to the criticism of the forms of catarrho-rheumatic, gastro- 
rheumatic, and biloso-rheumatic, which he does not admit, 
simply because the symptoms are common to all epizootics. 
In the charbonous complication of influenza, the decom¬ 
posed blood is black and thick, the vascular organs, such as 
the lungs, the liver, and the spleen, are gorged wdth blood of 
the same character; infiltrations of a citron colour, appertain¬ 
ing to charbonous affections, are also present. These latter 
sometimes occur under the form of anthrax. Finally, to 
find an analogy between the influenza of the horse and that 
of man, the author adduces a complication of encephalitis, 
myelitis, and also inflammation of the exudatic and plastic 
membranes. 
The treatment recommended by the author of this memoir 
for influenza, the report says, is rational, but it does not vary 
from that generally known and adopted. 
The commission, after a most critical examination of these 
memoirs, recommends that the prize be awarded to the one 
which has for motto, “ Una est certissime medicina et liomi- 
nis et veterinarian and that the tw 7 o memoirs be deposited in 
the archives of the Academy. 
N.B.—The Academy has adopted these conclusions. The 
commission w 7 as composed of MM. Gaudy, Lebeau, and 
Verheyen. 
