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contribution. But is the amount that has already been forwarded 
all that is to be placed to our credit ? We improve this last op¬ 
portunity to refresh the minds of our friends, and to urge those 
who have intended—but also delayed—to give, to hand in their 
offerings at once, in order that we may remit the final balance to 
the French committee, and close the account. 
Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. —We have received a kind invitation to attend the com¬ 
mencement exercises of the first graduating class of the Veter¬ 
inary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, which we 
were unable to accept on account of absence from the city. The 
following ten gentlemen form the graduating class of 1887 : 
Charles M. Cullen, Hiram P. Eves, Simon J, J. Harger, 
Bichard W. Hickman, Charles Lintz, Edgar Marlin, William B. 
Montgomery, John F. Vandegrift, Bichard G. Webster, Charles 
Williams. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
MALADIE DU COIT-DOURINE, 
By A. Liautard. * 
The disease bearing this designation is insidious in its prog¬ 
ress, complex in its nature, (affecting breeding animals of the 
equine and asinine species), and contagious by the act of copula¬ 
tion. It has been known only since the end of the last century, 
but is now common in Bussia, Bohemia, Hungary, Prussia, Al¬ 
geria, Syria, and France. 
From the peculiarity of its mode of contagion, it is not liable 
to spread to other countries, in the manner of other contagious 
diseases, aud being, on that account, strictly limited to breeding 
districts, it is not really an epizootic. It has been wrongly as¬ 
similated to human syphilis, but the analogy is limited to the 
similarity of its causes and of some of its symptoms, and to its 
characteristic lesions, for it i% never known to possess the charac- 
* Translated from A. Zundel. 
