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Another good proof of wliut I have stated, is that under the 
influence of good hygienic care, some horses, presenting first ex¬ 
clusively the symptoms of incipient angina, have two or three 
days later an eruption, whose appearance is followed by a marked 
improvement in the local pathological condition. Often have I 
noticed this condition, and especially lately, in one case which 
seems to contain alone a true demonstration of the changes in the 
symptoms. 
A gentleman had a four-year-old, which, for about twenty- 
four hours, had shown the symptoms of a high fever, accompanied 
with symptoms of a pharyngitis which threatened to be very 
severe. There was anorexia, dysphagia, abundant salivation and 
great soreness on pressure of the throat. 
Knowing that the animal had come recently from a dealer’s 
stable full of gourmy horses, I thought immediately that this 
pharyngeal angina might be a manifestation of gourme. Conse¬ 
quently I placed him in a protected stall of the stable, covered 
him well with two warm blankets, and prescribed for treatment 
only warm hay tea ad libitum ; for food anything he would take, 
and that was but a few grains of oats. Three days later he had a 
magnificent generalized eruption of horse-pox, and the angina cut 
short. From this moment he ate with relish hay, oats, mashes, 
&c., until his recovery, which was quite rapid. 
I believe this observation has a great signification. Added to 
the preceding consideration and the proof obtained on the cow, 
inoculated with the serosity obtained from the nostrils of a 
gourmy horse, which I have mentioned before, it constitutes 
with them a mass of evidence whose probative value cannot be 
contested. 
If then, as I hope, it is clearly establised by all these details, 
that gourme is essentially horse-pox, we come immediately to the 
conclusion that inoculation is the means most likely to prevent all 
complications, the probable causes of which I will try, in closing, 
to indicate. 
(To be continued.') 
