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strangulation. The constricted portion of the bowels presented a 
dark bluish color, considerably swollen and studded with drops of 
serum on its external coat. The balance of the alimentary canal 
and other visceral organs were in a healthy condition. The ab¬ 
dominal cavity contained a small quantity of bloody serum. This 
horse always enjoyed perfect health and carried a full supply of 
adipose tissue. 
TRANSLATIONS FROM FOREIGN PAPERS. 
GOURME; OK, HORSE VARIOLA. 
Natural and Irregular Forms of this Disease—Inoculation as 
a Prophylactic Means of Its Complications. 
BY M. L. TEAS HOT.* 
(Continued from \:a(je 445.) 
VI. 
One of the most common complications of equine variola is 
the exaggerated inflammation of the pustules, soon followed by 
lymphangitis and suppurative adenitis. It is often observed at 
the extremity of the head, upon the lips, and in the nasal cavi¬ 
ties ; it is also frequent on the extremities ; it is very seldom seen, 
on the contrary, round the genital organs. It seems always miss¬ 
ing, or at least it has not yet been recorded, upon any other 
part of the body. 
When this epi-phenomena takes place, the pustules become 
larger, are surrounded sometimes with large swellings, and in 
their centre become suppurative, and at a given time have a su¬ 
perficial resemblance to glanderous chancres. If they exist in 
* Translated by A. Liautard, M.D., V.S, 
