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CHARLES E. RING. 
AN INQUIRY 
INTO THE ETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE VENEREAL DIS 
EASES OF MAN AND OF THE LOWER ANIMALS. 
By Charles F. Ring, M.D. 
(■Continued from page 335.) 
Let us now examine for a moment into some of the experi¬ 
ments made in this new disease, for after all experiment—prop¬ 
erly conducted— is the touchstone of fact. 
Fleming writes: “ The disease (lues venereal equinis) is pro¬ 
duced only by actual contact of the diseased with the healthy. 
Inoculation is rarely successful in producing it; Lafosse and 
many other experimenters have not been able to transmit by 
puncture, nor yet by rubbing the mucous of the generative 
organs of an infected into those of a healthy animal; though 
Hertwig has succeeded once in doing so. Perhaps if the 
attempts were made at the period of oestrum they would be more 
successful/’ ( Ibid , Vol. 2, p. 330.) 
This admission and the results are highly significant, for it 
will be seen that the opposers of the theory of the transmission 
of syphilis to solipeds are caught in their own argument, viz . : 
that while neither the new disease nor syphilis can be communi¬ 
cated by puncture or inoculation , yet upon resorting to another 
method the former disease has been transmitted. This would 
seem clearly to prove that syphilis also could be communicated 
in the same manner, and more particularly at the time most 
favorable. 
In recapitulating our views again from the foregoing we feel 
justified in arriving at the following conclusions: 
I. That the local diseases of the sexual organs of solipeds, 
unlike those of the human species, have ever been considered sep¬ 
arated from the constitutional disease, and in this respect much 
could have been learned from veterinary authors. 
H. That there are now no longer any good grounds for jus¬ 
tifying a belief in the oneness of the venereal contagia. 
’ III. That the plague out of which ultimated the syphilitic 
