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Close study of the above case brought me to the firm belief 
that such had been the nature and progress of the phenomena 
described. But to be materially satisfied, dissections of an adhe¬ 
sive lymphangitis were necessary. 
This anatomical demonstration I soon obtained. A five-year- 
old, in poor condition, which I was told had gourme about a 
month before, and presented a large swelling of the left anterior 
leg, which had broken with several abscesses, died in our hospital 
of a suppurative pneumonia of the left lung. I dissected his leg 
and found in the middle of the oedema, at the internal face of the 
forearm, a hard cord of the size of a pencil, being a lymphatic 
obliterated by an adherent clot, filling it from a point near the 
knee to the axillary ganglions. These ganglions were also the 
seat of serous infiltration. 
In all probability this horse had had a complicated variola. 
What would have become of this external swelling if he had 
lived? Undoubtedly, as in the first horse, everything would, 
by degrees, have disappeared. Still, it proved the correctness of 
my previous interpretation. 
What can be thought now of those pseudo cases of benignant 
farcy spoken of even in our day ? 
Horse pox, disguised by the inflammation of the pustules and 
of the surrounding lymphatic vessels, may and must be some¬ 
times mistaken for a manifestation of glanders. 
The possibility of similar errors needs no proving: it has 
been done by Dard and M. Henry Bouley. 
All the complications—pseudo chancres of the pituitary mem¬ 
brane, of the lips, of the wings of the nostrils, of the skin of the 
legs; suppurative lymphangitis, with appearance of ulceration upon 
the track of the inflamed vessel; adenitis, with or without suppur¬ 
ation, are absolutely without danger by themselves, notwithstand¬ 
ing their bad aspect. In many circumstances even they do not 
interfere with the progress of the disease of which they are to¬ 
day one of the forms of resolution. The only exception to make 
is the adhesive lymphangitis, which by itself constitutes a compli¬ 
cation somewhat serious, on account of the length of time neces¬ 
sary for its disappearance. 
