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haps it is already time to cease using it, for its vague significa¬ 
tion is not sufficiently precise. A more expressive name would 
now be preferable. 
First, it would conform to the actual tendencies and known 
processes, and besides it would be a means of removing the con¬ 
fusion yet existing between a specific and contagions disease and 
other accidental affections having resemblance only by certain 
accessory phenomena. 
It may be said that the Italian expression cinsorro and the 
German and English names stvengel and strangles are insufficient. 
The first is the translation of the word gourme and the other 
merely that of angina. These last being more restrictive, are 
yet more inexact, as they seem to assimilate gourme to a prin¬ 
cipal inflammation of the throat. 
A proper denomination, better defining the affection, ought 
now to be employed. This is the first necessary condition to be 
realized. To denominate and define the same things in the same 
manner is always the surest way to avoid confusion. 
In 1863 W. H. Bouley gave the name of horse pox to the 
pustular eruption of gourme. This expression constituted then 
a very happy opposition to the words cow pox , and indicated 
the origin so long and vainly looked for of the vaccine virus. 
No doubt at this time one could not see in the eruption in ques¬ 
tion the entire nature of the affection. This would have been a 
too radical revolution. In the observation of science, time is 
always necessary for the truth to develop itself. 
For the question now under consideration, I feel satisfied that 
Mr. H. Bouley would not hesitate to recognize now in the erup¬ 
tion which he described as the complete natural form of the 
gourme, and to regard all that was considered in the part since as 
. the nature of the disease as simple deviations caused by ail the 
influences capable to interfere with the regular and normal evolu¬ 
tion. And lie would willingly give to the word horse pox 
the sense of gourme. The first would, even with advantage, take 
the place of the second. 
Still I do not belive that it would be the best one, in the point 
of view of comparative pathology. In connection # with its limited 
