SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 485 
Soon after similar eruptions occurred on different parts of 
the penis. All of these were identical in nature, they were 
true papules of a specific kind, they did not seem to be 
painful. In the course of two days the central mass of these 
elevations, hitherto transparent and solid, became opaque, 
white, and so soft as to fall off on slight pressure, leaving a 
rather deep cavity, of a red colour and finely dotted with 
points. At the end of a few hours it becomes covered with 
an opaque, pultaceous coat, of a greyish-white colour, and 
this shortly becomes very prominent. These lesions resem¬ 
ble those of syphilis. Autopsy .—The most marked lesions 
were observed in the lymphatic glands and the skin. M. 
Trasbot describes these minutely, and concludes they are 
special and belong exclusively to the dourine. “ In all parts 
of the body,” he says, “ the lymphatic glands were enlarged, 
of a dark red colour, and surrounded by a slight serous in¬ 
filtration of an amber-coloured serum into the surrounding 
areolar tissue; where these glands lie in masses, as at the 
root of the lungs, in the femoral space, &c., they form masses 
three or four times the normal size. In spite of the consi¬ 
derable swelling, of which they were the seat to a more or 
less marked degree, they always preserved their normal con¬ 
sistence. Their interfollicular connective tissue was simply 
a little infiltrated, but never indurated. On section each gland 
examined separately showed three or four times its normal 
diameter and a red colour, due simply to vascularity. It was 
in no case softened nor purulent nor even ecchymosed by in¬ 
terstitial haemorrhages. Careful examination of the hardened 
glands by means of the microscope confirmed the above cha¬ 
racters. Each follicle ranged in diameter from T 2 ~ to -~ 0 
mm., instead of T l ~- to mm., which is the normal dia¬ 
meter in the horse. It was completely filled with lymphoid 
cells which were regular in most parts, especially the outer 
zone, and a little small, shrunken, and polyhedral from mu¬ 
tual pressure in the centre. Around the follicle may be 
seen a capillary network, forming a very rich anastomosis in 
fine connective tissue, which is transparent and shows no 
signs of inflammation. Thus, there was simple hypertrophy 
of the lymph follicles, and of the interfollicular capillary 
network. This is a condition which can be compared with 
nothing which has been hitherto studied in the horse. It 
could not have resulted from a simple irritation, for either 
that would have been ephemeral, and thus would have pro¬ 
duced a simple congestion terminated soon by resolution ; or 
acting more rapidly it would have caused suppuration, which 
occurs with exceptional facility in the organism of the 
