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of Nostorf, had the opportunity of observing the transmission of 
horse-pox to several men; there was accompanying fever, and in 
some cases delirium.* Berndt alludes to an instance in which a 
boy was infected from a horse suffering from the so-called “ epi¬ 
zootic grease,” (epizoutiscker mauke ), and from the eruption on 
him people were inoculated most successfully, hue cow-pocks 
being developed.! And so on with other instances. 
But in every country to which Jenner’s views had penetrated, 
mnch uncertainty prevailed with regard to the nature of the dis¬ 
ease termed “ grease ” or “ sore heels ; ” and therefore disappoint¬ 
ment only too often followed attempts to transmit it to-the cow, 
and so to produce cow-pox.! In Italy, for instance, the term 
was translated into yiardone . pedal fistula; and the possibility of 
producing such a disease as cow-pox from this condition placed 
the reputation of Jenner very much at the mercy of captious 
critics. 
In 1840, Dard saw the disease among horses in France, and 
called it Rhinite pemphigoide ; in 1843 it was again observed in 
that country by Bouley, now director of the French Veterinary 
Schools, who designated it Herpes phylotenoide , to distinguish it 
from glanders and farcy, which it somewhat resembles. But it 
was not until 1860 that the discovery of Jenner and the researches 
of Loy received further confirmation, and scientific attention was 
seriously directed to it. In the spring of that year the horses in 
the commune of Rieumes, not far from Toulouse, were attacked 
with a disease which assumed an epizootic form, and in less than 
three weeks more than a hundred were affected. M. Sarrans, the 
district veterinary surgeon, reported the disease as commencing 
with slight fever, soon followed by local symptoms, the chief of 
which was hot and painful swelling of the limbs, with an eruption 
of small pustules on the surface of the tumefied parts. In three to 
*lbidem. Altona, 1835. 
t Rust’s “ Kritiscker Repertorium,” baud xxi. 
1 Iu the nomenclature of disease drawn up by a joint committee of the 
Royal College of Physicians, and published in 1869, T find “ grease ” named 
Equinia mitis, and defined as “ a pustular eruption produced by the contagion of 
matter from a horse affected with the grease.” 
