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GOURME ; OR, HORSE VARIOLA.* 
Natural and Irregular Forms of this Dukase—Inoculation as a Prophy¬ 
lactic Means of its Complications. 
By M. L. Trasbot. 
I. 
This title indicates the fundamental idea and the object of this 
paper. 
To establish that distemper is the proper variola of horses, and 
to prove that all the accidents it may give rise to, may be pre¬ 
vented by inoculating the young animals, are the two problems 
I have tried to solve. 
There is, perhaps, no disease upon which more has been writ¬ 
ten than the subject before us. All veterinary publications, 
journals, bulletins of societies, classical or encyclopedical works, 
contain numerous articles, often contradictory, upon its forms, its 
nature and its contagiousness. Nevertheless, it yet remains 
poorly known in its nature. Most of the authors continue to 
consider as fundamental, some phenomena which, properly 
speaking, are but complications; such as the catarrhal inflamma¬ 
tions of the anterior respiratory tracts, the lobular pneumonia and 
even the lymphangitis and suppurative adenitis. Others have of¬ 
ten taken some of its irregular manifestations for glanders and 
farcy ; thus it is certain, that those pretended cases of flying farcy 
and facial farcy, whose cure is reported, were nothing but cases 
of lymphangitis or of strangles. 
And again, work generally is considered as connected with 
strangles in young horses ; all inflammatory affections of the throat, 
and of the mouth, especially when they are accompanied with the 
* Strangles of the English. 
