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among whom should be mentioned Sand and Jensen*, Schutzf, 
Poelj, and Zschokke§ have isolated and studied streptococci 
from cases of strangles. Schiitz succeeded in producing the 
lesions with pure cultures of his streptococcus when it was in¬ 
jected into the nasal passage of healthy horses. I have examined 
the pus from an abscess in but one case of strangles and that a 
chronic one. This contained a streptococcus which resembled 
morphologically and in its behavior on culture media that of 
Schiitz but it was innocuous to small animals. Fignieres,|| how¬ 
ever, questions the etiological significance of the streptococcus, 
preferring to consider it secondary to the real causal agent, 
which he found to be a cocco-baci/lus identical with that of in¬ 
fluenza ( Brustseuche ). 
V. Bnistsettche or Infectious Pneumonia. —This disease has 
been attributed to a streptococcus although several investigatois 
have reported the discovery of other supposedly etiological fac¬ 
tors. 
In 1887, Schiitz! published the results of his investigations 
into the cause of Brustseuche. He described an organism 
which appeared as a diplococcus in tissues but in bouillon cul¬ 
tures it grew in flocculi. From the description given it appears 
that this organism was a streptococcus notwithstanding the fact 
that in the tissues it appeared more often as a diplococcus. In 
cultures he speaks of it as chains growing in masses. He men¬ 
tions a capsule, but in the cases described it does not seem to be 
invariably present and it is not mentioned in preparations made 
from cultures. Chantemesse and Delamotte, Galtier and Violet, 
* Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Thiermedicin. XIII. (1888) S. 437. 
f Archiv f. wiss. uprakt. Thierheilkunde, (1888) S. 172. 
J Fortschritte der Medicine. VI. (1888), S. 4. 
$ Loc. cit. 
This literature is reviewed by Lupke in Centralblatt f Bakteriologie u. Parasiten— 
kunde. Bs. V. (1889) S. 44. 
|| Recueilde Medecine Veterinaire, 1897, Nos. 12 and 16. Translated in full in The 
Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, XI. 1898, p. 312. 
^[Virchow’s Archiv, Bd. CVII. (1887) S. 356. 
