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CHARLES F. RING. 
General Dautnas, author of the “ Chevaux du Sahara,” alludes 
to the frequency and ravages of the disease among the horses of 
the tribes in the province of Constantine; and Baujol, another 
army veterinary surgeon, reports it as causing great havoc among 
the horses in the Bhiras tribe. In 1852 it carried off a large 
number of mares in the circle of Bon-Arreridj, and in 1853 it 
prevailed in the circle of Setif. It was not until the spring of 
1851 that it revealed itself in France, among the brood mares in 
the plain of Tarbes, where it for the first time attracted the atten¬ 
tion of French veterinary surgeons, being chiefly studied by 
lloturier and Bouchard, military veterinary surgeons, and by an 
official commission. In 1851 the malady was located in thirty- 
one communes around Tarbes, containing 1,874 mares. In De¬ 
cember of that year Bouchard recognized it in 127 mares which 
had been put to government stallions and to stallions belonging 
to private individuals. Out of the total number, fifty-two died. 
It had nearly ceased in the following year. 
With regard to the origin of this disease in France, Trelut, 
veterinary surgeon to the stallion depot at Tarbes, in two able 
memoirs on the subject, traces its advent to the importation of a 
stallion from Syria in 1851, and again by two other stallions 
from the same country in 1861. 
He asserts that it was, perhaps, perpetuated in the south of 
France, because it there found itself in a climate resembling that 
of Syria, where it nearly always prevails ; and also because no 
steps were taken to thoroughly eradicate it. 
It has not been witnessed as vet in England, Belgium, Italy, 
Spain, or Denmark, nor in countries beyond Europe, Asia, or 
Africa, so far as I am aware; but there can be no doubt that if 
diseased stallions or mares are imported to those regions now 
exempted from its effects, it will appear there, as it has done in 
.Russia (where it is frequent and violent, particularly in the 
southern governments), Germany, Hungary, Bohemia and 
France.” (Ibid, Yol. II, p. 303.) 
CHARACTER. 
“ This disease is peculiar to solipeds—asinine as well as 
