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this conclusion is derived, result from the data furnished to us by 
comparative pathology, and specially from the rigorous analysis 
of the phenomena proper to gourme. 
Variola of man is often followed after its eruption by the 
formation of subcutaneous and intermuscular abscesses, lymphan¬ 
gitis and even pyohenria. When the eruption is interrupted by 
any cause whatever—cold, bad hygiene, bad lodging, etc., as is 
seen in the epidemics raging amongst soldiers while in campaign, 
it. is often complicated with capillary bronchitis and lobular 
pneumonia which is rapidly fatal. 
It is true these complications are seldom seen in man. They 
are quite exceptional, while angina and bronchitis are almost a 
rule in the gourme of horse. But this difference is easy to 
explain. 
As soon as man feels himself suffering with the fever of in¬ 
cubation of this disease, he goes to bed, keeps himself warm—in 
fact places himself in the most favorable condition for the cuta¬ 
neous eruption. The horse, on the contrary, often remains all 
day long in fairs, wagons, bad hotel stables, exposed to cold, rain 
or winds. All these conditions, which were considered first as 
causes of development of the disease, have in reality for effect to 
prevent its external eruption, and by repercussion to give rise to 
all the inflammatory accidents, considered, right or wrong, as the 
fundamental causes. 
During the existence of an epizootic of small pox in sheep, 
many animals are seen upon which the cutaneous eruption aborts, 
if the flock has been exposed to the inclemency of the weather. 
Then also we have bronchitis and lobular pneumonia. After the 
regular eruption of varioloid pustules, one may even sometimes 
see large subcutaneous abscesses. This is, however, rare in sheep, 
in which the organism is but slightly pyogenical. 
All these deviations in the course of the variola of man and 
of sheep, constitute, no doubt, accidents generally more serious 
than the catarrhal inflammations of the throat, which are the 
most common and prominent form of gourme. But one must 
consider also that these same diseases, in their regular form, are 
accompanied with a fibrile condition more severe, and of general 
