CORRESPONDENCE. 
477 
horses is “ Cellulitis,” 1 have been woefully mistaken in calling 
it u Influenza.” If I have committed so grave an error I am 
anxious to learn why it happened, in that I may guard against a 
repetition in the future. 1 have no doubt but that Dr. Myers 
entertains the same sentiments in regard to the matter. 
Of course I cannot charge Dr. M. with introducing so objec¬ 
tionable a term as “ Pink-eye,” but I think it a fault to head an 
article for publication with borrowed nomenclature that means 
nothing. We might have “ Epizootic Cellulitis,” but certainly 
not “ Pink-eyes.” True, it is very common to hear English and 
Scotch veterinarians use the term, but surely there is no need to 
borrow their shortcomings. The use of the term during the past 
few months has served to mislead the public as to the importance 
of the disease, and given occasion for the indiscriminate dosing 
of the afflicted animals to an extent probably never equalled in 
the country, for it was said to be a new disease, of which the vet¬ 
erinary surgeons knew nothing, and consequently everybody felt 
at liberty to try everything in the shape of medicine that might 
be recommended, or that might suggest itself to the self-appointed 
surgeons in attendance. 
I have no doubt Dr. M. was led to write of the disease as 
epizootic cellulitis from reading Professor Williams’ account of 
what the Scotch call “ Pink-eye,” and which the Professor named 
as above.* 
The description which the author gives of the disease would 
apply to many of the cases which I have seen here, yet I am far 
from certain that I have had to deal with epizootic cellulitis. 
In the short account of the disease I sent to the November 
number of the Review, so certain was I that influenza was the 
complaint of which I was writing, that it never occurred to me as 
at all necessary to enumerate the symptoms, and so I con¬ 
tented myself with calling attention to the characteristics of the 
outbreak. 
In my correspondence with army veterinary surgeons, and 
also with those of St. Louis and New York, no other term 
•See Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine, page 299. 
