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INNOCENTE NOSOTTI. 
When the nutrition of an organ lias been deeply altered, it is 
said, resting on the anatomical alteration, that it has become the 
seat of “inflammation.” But the word inflammation, or even the 
determination of the various degrees of the inflammatory process, 
will not indicate the real seriousness of the disease with which 
the animal is affected. Thus, the expressions pneumonia and 
pleurisy designate diseases of the lungs and of the pleura, some 
of which are benign, while others are fatal. 
The danger to which the life of an animal is exposed is less 
inherent in the local inflammation than in the dyscrasia of the 
blood, or in the disturbances of the functions of the heart, and of 
nutrition. 
Distempers, glanders, heaves, and many other diseases of 
horses have received their name from symptoms observed by the 
first authors. To-day these affections are well known, and these 
same symptoms, only recognized at first, have become accessory, 
if they are not ignored. Consequently it is not indispensable to 
give to every disease a name taken from the symptoms which 
characterize it, or by the necroscopic lesions found at the post¬ 
mortems of those that have died. 
{To be continued .) 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AND ITS MICROBE- 
INOCULATION WITH LIQUID OP CULTURE.—ATTENUATION OP 
THE VIRUS.* 
By De. Innooente Nosotti. 
The initiative of the researches made on this disease belongs 
to the Agricole Committee of Pavia, who, alarmed by the frequent 
outbreaks of that epizootic in Italy, had established a commission 
to study its progress and nature. Dr. Nosotti belonged to that 
commission, and reported the result of the investigations. 
♦Extracted from Researches upon the Origin and Nature of Aphtous Fever and 
the Means of Preventing it by Inoculation .—(Clinica Veter inaria.) 
