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no marked changes in the organs. The pericardial sac and 
pleural cavity are full of serosity ; ante-mortem clots in heart; 
have noticed abscess in stomach in a few cases. Examination 
of the blood shows in all cases the presence of a spirillum or 
filaria, which is not known to any of us here. It is a small body, 
larger at one end than at the other, which has a long moving 
tail * * * it is exceeding active and motile. Can it be the 
horse sickness of Africa ? The disease has been noticed in the 
Islands in former years, but never to the extent of the present 
rainy season. In some places all the native ponies have suc¬ 
cumbed to the disease, and here in Manila the U. S. Government 
has lost many animals.” 
The question put by our correspondent— t( Can it be the horse 
sickness of Africa ? ”—was, to my mind, likely to be an¬ 
swered in the affirmative. But it was merely a suggestion, and 
the question was too serious, and the subject too important for 
us to be the decisive arbiter. So, we called on Prof. Nocard, 
who gave us a confirmation of our correspondent’s and our sup¬ 
positions. Nocard wrote in a note : “ The disease in question 
seems to me identical with ‘ Surra ’ of India or the ‘ Nagana ’ 
of South Africa. There is no doubt but that the parasite is a 
trypanosome. I would like to have glass slides of blood taken 
from the animals. Do sucking insects analagous to the tse-tse 
exist in the district ? These insects would inoculate the disease 
with their stings,” 
Thus we are probably in the presence of a sickness which is 
parasitic, which, as in other diseases, is due to the same organism, 
the trypanosome, an organism which seems to give rise to three 
different manifestations—“ Nagana,” “surra,” and “ daurine.” 
We have sent to our confrere in Manila the answers he asked 
of us ; we have told him of the request of Prof. Nocard, and by 
his further communications we hope to keep the readers of the 
Review au courant. 
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Cocaine and Morphine.—A few months ago, in one of 
my “chronicles,” I called the attention of our readers to the 
