HUMAN AND ANIMAL VARIOLJE. 
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others as in Jenner’s, Loy’s and Lafosse’s cases. From these mul¬ 
tiplied observations and experiments, most carefully watched, and 
discussed by the most eminent medical and veterinary authorities 
in Paris, there could no longer exist the shadow of a doubt as to 
the nature of the disease, which was accordingly designated 
“ equine variola” by Depanl, and “ horse-pox ” by Bouley himself. 
Bonley confesses that for years he had met with the disease 
among horses from time to time, but until Lafosse’s experiments 
at Toulouse he had not suspected its variolous nature. 
From time to time outbreaks of the disease have been recorded 
in France, where it appears to be most prevalent in Paris and in 
its neighborhood. 
So long ago as 1853, I witnessed, in Manchester, a case of in¬ 
oculation of a farrier who had shod a horse affected with ‘‘grease.” 
The vesicle was situated on the chin, and there was great consti¬ 
tutional disturbance. 
In “ Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police,” I have devoted 
a chapter to it, and in the periodical edited by me, the Veterinary 
Journal , I have alluded to it frequently (particularly in vol. v., p. 
81; vol. vii., p. 371; vol. ix., p. 204). A translation is -.Iso given 
of an interesting report by Prof. Ellenberger,of the Berlin veteri¬ 
nary school, of an outbreak of what he describes as “ stomatitis 
pustulosa contagiosa,” but which was really horse-pox. In this 
respect the ready communicability of the disease and its vaceiuo- 
genous character is well shown. In a recent number of the Deut¬ 
sche Zeitschrift fur Thiermedicin , Prof Friedberger, of the 
Munich veterinary school, furnishes an excellent account of an 
outbreak in that city, and a record of successful experiments. A 
translation of this paper appears in the Veterinary Journal for 
September, 1880. In German and Italian veterinary literature 
similar outbreaks are described. For the past two or three years 
there has prevailed widely among horses in England, Ireland and 
Scotland a pustular exanthem, very contagious in its character) 
and known among grooms and others as the “ boil disease,” the 
“ American boil disorder,” etc., which, in some of its features, if 
not in all, somewhat resembles horse-pox. The eruption in the 
majority of cases is mainly confined to the trunk. From England 
