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ROSCOE R. BELL. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
INFECTIOUS CATARRHAL FEVER OF HORSES. 
By Roscoe R. Bell, D. V. S., Brookly.v, N. Y. 
A Paper read before tlie New York State Veterinary Medical Society, Sept. 15, 1897. 
I have adopted this title for a disea.se, or class of diseases, 
affecting horses enzootically in this and other countries, and , 
occasionally existing as an epizootic and panzootic, after 
niuch deliberation and consideration of the literature upon the i 
subject in the English language, and some translations from the 
French and German authors, because it gives a clearer interpre¬ 
tation of the character and nature of the varied symptoms pre¬ 
sented by the multiplicity of the lesions and complications met 
with than any of the many names by which it has been de¬ 
scribed. Almost every author has the same difficulty, and each 
one adopts a name which he thinks is more in conformity with 
his observations. Prof. Zuill devotes a page or two to criticisms 
of its nomenclature, and finally settles upon “ Typhoid PAver,” 
which I object to for the reason that the lesions in this disease 
are so distinctive from the affection bearing that title and 
affecting the human subject that we should not indulge in any ‘ 
such confusing and misleading caption. 
All that group of diseases appearing periodically in sales i 
stables or in largre stables after the introduction of one or more 
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green horses, and which bear titles in conformity with the most | 
prominent symptoms—pinkeye, influenza, distemper, infectious i 
pneumonia, infectious laryngitis, bronchitis, pleurisy, pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, etc.—have undoubtedly the same origin, the same j 
iinfecting agent, and authorities, arguing from the history and ^ 
elinical observations in such outbreaks, are pretty well united | 
as to what the nature of that agent is, even though they cannot | 
demonstrate its presence. i 
I take it that this is neither the place nor the occasion to go i 
into a minute description of the history, symptoms in extenso^ | 
auid the concise phenomena connected with outbreaks, nor to | 
