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FILARIOSIS OF THE SUSPENSORY LIGAMENT OF 
THE FETLOCK IN HORSES.* 
ByJ. Pader, Veterinarian to the 19TH Regiment of Artillery. 
Extracted from the Archives de Parasitologie , by A. Eiautard, M.D., V.M. 
History and Nature of the Affection .—This affection of 
equines is due to Filaria reticulata (Diesing-), Creplin. 
This parasite, discovered in 1840 by Hermann and Blisweis, 
of the Veterinary Institute of Vienna, has been since observed 
by others—German, Austrian, Italian and Russian veterinarians. 
Professor Tshulsowski, of Kasan, has made of it a special 
study. The results of his observations are found in the Notices 
de VInstitut Veterinaire de Kasan (1884-1888), and reprinted in 
the Oesterr Monatsch. fiir Thierhulkunde , 1888. 
The filaria reticulata was observed in France by Prof. Rail- 
liet in 1891 under the name of Spiroptera reticulata , which 
had received that name from Diesing. Students of Alfort, while 
dissecting, found a very fine worm in the cervical ligament of a 
* This paper obtained the Pangoue prize of the Societe Centrale de Medecine 
Veterinaire in 1900. 
