JULY, 1878. 
ORIGINAL ARTICL.ES. 
A CONTRIBUTION 
TO THE PATHOLOGY AND .ETIOLOGY OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL 
VARIOLAS. 
I 
Translated by F. S. BILLINGS. 
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HOW DO OTHER ANIMALS AND MAN DEPORT THEMSELVES TOWARD 
THE CONTAGIUM OF V. OVINA ? 
In general, the contaginm of v. ovina deports itself in this 
direction similar to that of v. humana. It lias the faculty to com¬ 
plicate other animal species, in but an insignificant degree. As 
already mentioned, a local infection of men with ovina from acci¬ 
dental injury when inoculating sheep, lias been reported in 
isolated cases; a sort of positive inoculation. Goats have been in 
very isolated cases infected by the contaginm of v. ovina in a 
volatile (or dispersing) form, that is, when in the same stable with 
diseased sheep ; it generates by them a general exanthema ac¬ 
companied by high fever, which deported itself in a manner 
