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Tingry, de Geneve, Delafond, &c. We simply state the 
results we have obtained.” 
On the 26th February, 1880, before the Societe Centrale 
de Medecine Yeterinaire, M. Nocard , in the report of the 
committee appointed to examine a paper by M. Humbert , 
of the 22nd Regiment of Artillery, entitled, a Practical 
Essay on the Progress and State of the Temperature in the 
Principal Stages of Strangles,” says :—“ The field in which 
M. Humbert has collected the elements of his work was 
highly favorable to this kind of research, the author having 
at that time been attached to the Remount Depot of Caen. 
All the horses who remain at that depot during the active 
period of purchase are of the Norman race more or less 
improved; they vary in age from three and a half to four 
years. Most of them have undergone that detestable and 
fatal management which cannot be too much condemned, 
known as f preparation for sale/ Once at the depot, they 
were subjected to absolutely the same conditions of feeding, 
temperature, grooming, and daily exercises. Thus, we can 
understand that results obtained from them have the highest 
importance. If we add that all the temperature readings 
were taken at the rectum, all at the same hours—8 a.m. and 
S p.m.—by means of a maximum thermometer, recording T l 0 
degree, that the first precaution of the author was to care¬ 
fully determine the normal temperature of the horses on 
which he made his observations, we shall then be able to 
appreciate the real value of the work. The conclusions thus 
obtained are :—(1) Strangle diseases are characterised, from 
a thermometric point of view, by extreme variability of in¬ 
ternal temperature. (2) The frequent and extensive oscil¬ 
lations of the curve are especially remarkable at the com¬ 
mencement of the attack in the most simple form when 
there is general febrile disturbance without localisation in 
any particular internal organ. (o) The thermic curve 
becomes regular, constant, and hence typical, only in cases 
where the disease assumes the form of pneumonia, pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, or typhoid fever. Except in these, when the 
curve depends rather upon the local complications than upon 
ttfe general strangles, the traces are too variable to be cited 
as characteristic of any special morbid state. (4) The 
changes in temperature do not then prove useful in the dis¬ 
tinction of one form of strangles from another. It is a 
symptomatic element which in some degree gives a measure 
of the intensity of the existing fever, but has no marked 
diagnostic value. (5) It is otherwise from the prognostic 
point of view. Generally a high temperature is an indi- 
