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closely resembles the soft or non-syphilitic chancre or chancroid of 
man in many of its characteristics. From the above standpoint, 
then, equine syphilis may be defined as a malignant, specific vene¬ 
real disease, peculiar to solipeds. 
The nature of the disease is not thoroughly understood, some 
believing it to be a neurotic (nervous) affection, while others, 
noting the very common changes in the lymphatics, designate it a 
lymphatico-nervous disease, etc. Others, relying on some simil¬ 
arity of symptoms and pathological changes, believe it identical 
with or closely allied to human syphilis. But the mercurial treat¬ 
ment so efficacious in the syphilis of man seems inert in this 
disease; the symptoms of the two disorders, while resembling each 
other in some respects, yet differ widely in many very essential 
particulars, and furthermore, carefully conducted experiments of 
Horand and Peuch of Lyons, demonstrate that human syphilis is 
not transmissible to solipeds. 
“ Without entering, then, into any further discussion of the 
views entertained with regard to the nature of the disease, we may 
at once aver that no definite conclusion can be arrived at, and we 
must be content with the statement that it is an eminently viru¬ 
lent malady of a specific nature, generally marked at first by local 
signs and subsequently by constitutional derangement of a grave 
character 55 (Fleming). 
To be continued . 
ANTIFEBRIN OR ACETANILID. 
By J. C. Meyee, Se., V.S. 
(A paper read before the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association at 
Cincinnati. 
In the perusal of a trans-atlantic journal, the Repertorium 3 
founded by the late Prof. Hering, and at present edited by Prof. 
Vogel in Stuttgart, my eye fell upon an article entitled “ Anti- 
febrin or Acetanilid,” written by L. Hoffmann, Instructor at the 
Veterinary Institution at Stuttgart. This paper is worthy of 
further circulation. 
