ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. GG5 
the mucous membrane of the guttural pouches, which are 
filled with muco-pus; at other times there is inflammation of 
the lymphatic vessels of the nostrils and cheeks, tumefaction 
and suppuration of the superior tracheal lymphatic glands, 
and even those of the bronchi and mesentery. Some of the 
latter are frequently the size of one's fist, soft, and reddish- 
grey in colour, or indurated and undergoing caseous degenera¬ 
tion ; their peritoneal envelope is opaque and thickened, and 
sometimes adherent to the neighbouring tissues; when this 
is the case the puriform matter is prevented from escaping 
into the abdominal cavity. In these instances the intestinal 
mucous membrane exhibits the lesions of chronic catarrh; 
the lungs are studded by cheesy cysts, due partly to the 
caseous metamorphosis of the lobular pneumonia, and partly 
to embolic foci (focolai). In addition, cuneiform cysts 
are also found in the kidneys, liver, and spleen. Collections 
of pus are met with in the peritoneum, pleura, and the 
subcutaneous connective tissues. The blood is rich in 
leucocytes. 
The points of resemblance between adenitis and scrofula 
in the human being are next dealt with and commented 
upon. The constancy of the adenopathy (acleuopatie ), the 
great tendency the disease has towards recovery, the frequency 
with which the submaxillary and cervical lymphatic glands 
are involved, the presence of arthritis in the serious form 
of scrofula in man and the identical articular affection in 
strangles—all appear to favour the opinion that adenitis is 
nothing else than scrofula. What might distinguish them 
is their course; the first being acute, the second chronic. 
There is also the absence of the nutritive alterations of the 
skin, which are notably so frequent in man; though the 
chronic form of strangles is exactly like the human disease. 
It wmuld, therefore, seem that the adenitis equina is not a 
depurative malady, bringing about the excretion of infective 
matters; neither is it a necessary disease, as so many believe. 
It is a catarrh of the nasal mucous membrane, extending 
sometimes to the contiguous mucous membrane, with inflam¬ 
matory tumefaction of the submaxillary lymphatic glands. 
At the beginning it is a purely local disease, but passes 
to the lymphanginitic condition, affecting the cervical and 
thoracic lymphatic glands; and from this results a general 
morbid state, an infection. 
What is peculiar about this disease is, that it is readily 
propagated to the other organs, producing finally a humoral 
or general malady which may end in glanders and tubercu¬ 
losis, as scrofula does in phthisis. 
