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setate primos dentes emittunt, aut cum protinus adultiores 
paullo secundos edunt, tunc strumosis collectionibus oppor- 
tuniores visuntur. . . . armentariis pullis, qui non quintum 
vel sextum mensem excesserunt strumae plerumque sic 
extuberant, et per inflammationem tumescunt, ut nec ullam 
herbam pascere nec matribus subrumari possint.” 
Vegetius Renatus also describes it in the second book of 
his work: “ dum caput pullorum calefecerit prima dentitio, 
inter gingivas atque maxillas tumor collectioque generator, 
quae pulluria vocatur. Cujus passionis tanta tensura est, ut 
manducare vix possint. Sed cataplasmatibus studiosissime 
maturanda, deinde scalpello aperienda, post sale, et aceto, 
et oleo curanda.” Carlo Ruini, Filippo Sacco, Fiaschi, 
Solleysel, Bourgelat, Paulet, Metaxa, Pozzi, Chabert, Bou- 
trelle, Waldinger, Ryding, Yeith, Funke, Blaine, Dietrichs, 
Robertson, Gilbert, and Rychner have been more or less 
diffuse in their description of it. Notwithstanding its anti¬ 
quity and the many writers who have treated of it, modern 
pathologists are not entirely agreed as to a definition of the 
malady. Without entering lengthily into the various learned 
opinions on this point, that of Haubneris referred to. That 
authority believed it ^to be a lymphatio-catarrhal affection 
(<scrofulosa ) proper to the horse. Gleisberg supposed it to 
consist in an acute, and sometimes febrile, catarrh of the 
Schneiderian mucous membrane, as well as of that of the 
frontal and maxillary sinuses, with inflammatory tumefaction 
of the submaxillary lymphatic glands, which may suppurate. 
According to Roll the “ adenitis equina” consists in an acute 
catarrh of the nasal and sinus mucous membrane, with 
tumefaction and secondary acute inflammation of the sub¬ 
maxillary glands. Hering and Spinola consider it as a 
catarrhal lymphatic affection peculiar to the horse, and as 
being contagious and peculiar to young animals. Falke des¬ 
cribes, but does not define the disease. Kraus adopts Rolfs 
definition. 
The various distinctions established by the different autho¬ 
rities with regard to the form, course, duration, &c., of the 
disease are then reviewed, and the authors give the preference 
to that given by Spinola, who distinguishes a benignant form 
with a regular course , and a malignant form whose progress is 
irregular . 
{To be continued .) 
