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Professor Fleming allots so much space—36 pages—in his Manual 
of Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police. 
Professor Law, in a much smaller work (Farmer’s Veterinary 
Adviser, p. 46), speaks of a serious constitutional disease of a 
venereal nature existing “ in the horses of Arabia, North Africa 
and Central Europe, bearing a strong resemblance in many points 
to syphilis,” and of a comparatively recent origin. 
Professor William Williams treats of this new disease of the 
horse under the title of u Maladie du Coit,” and says, “ It was 
first seen in Russia in 1796, and that it has since invaded Africa, 
Egypt, and the majority of the European countries. No men¬ 
tion, however, has been made of it in Great Britain, Spain, or 
Belgium.” (Veterinary Surgery, second edition, Vol. I, p. 249.) 
The statement of Bollinger, “ that the virus of syphilis, when 
introduced into horses, never produced glanders,” is, in weight of 
argument, about as insufficient as would be the assertion that, as 
the poison of syphilis never produced a disease like the epidemic, 
it hence never could have been derived from it. 
But we shall see how far, even in this apparently secure posi¬ 
tion, Bollinger is likely to be sustained by the evidence in the case. 
Fleming gives a very comprehensive account of the geograph¬ 
ical distribution and history of this new disease, only a small 
portion of which we have room here to quote. He says: “ This 
is a malady which has only come into notice within a com¬ 
paratively recent date, and we cannot do better, in attempting to 
define its geographical limits, than give a brief sketch of its his¬ 
tory. The first notice of the disease is that given by the German 
veterinarian, Ammon, in 1796 and in 1799; he observed it in the 
district of Trakehnen, North Prussia, affecting mares and stallions. 
It persisted in this locality until 1801, when Count Lindenan, 
Master of the Horse to the King of Prussia, caused it to be care¬ 
fully studied by Reckleben; and two years afterwards (1803) 
Ammon and Dickhauser gave an excellent description in Ten- 
neker’s Gazette (Vol. III). From 1801 the malady disappeared 
from Prussia, but extended northward, causing much loss in 
Lithuania, and returning again to Trakehnen in 1807, where it 
once more came under the cognizance of Ammon. 
