TRANSLATIONS FROM FOREIGN PAPERS. 
835 
union of those facts, so plain and well connected, has been s'> 
long overlooked. For, from the affection likely to be more 
severe in older subjects, as in the point of view of vital resistance, 
the advantage must be in favor of the older animals. 
Another condition connected with the adult age, the growth 
of the permanent teeth, has been considered as the occasional 
cause of the appearance of gourme. M. Reynal says this is 
an opinion generally admitted. According to some practitioners, 
the condition that the growth of the teeth excites towards the 
superior chambers of the digestive and respiratory apparatus, is 
a condition, if not producing, at least exciting of gourme. This 
manner of thinking, with the idea that the disease is localized 
or limited to the head, cannot be sustained in our day. It is too 
well proved that the eruptions may take place over the whole 
surface of the body, to have like assertions discussed. 
If quite often the localization takes place towards the head, it 
is because an exciting cause of angina lias somewhat attracted 
the specific eruption toward that point. For the same reason that 
lately I have seen on four horses affected witli cartilaginous quit- 
tor, the eruption manifesting itself in a. confluent manner on the 
affected leg, the growth of the permanent teeth might act in the 
same way when the disease exists already, but it would not pro] 
duce it. 
Riquet has already discussed the opinion relating to the growth 
of the teeth, in saying when the growth of the teeth takes place 
beyond the other conditions of the development of gourme, 
it gives rise to no difficulty. 
On this point, as in many others, it may be said that in place 
of well established facts, hypotheses have been accepted as satis¬ 
factory. 
Emigration has always been named as the most efficient cause 
of that disease. In all papers, discussions, classic works, this 
opinion is reproduced under different forms. 
It has been said that the transport of animals from one coun¬ 
try to another without having their constitutions prepared for the 
changes of climate, quality of air, food, stabling, &c., &c., was 
sufficient to give rise to the disease. “ Those serious and impor- 
