A treatise on epizootic lymphangitis / by W.A. Pallin.

  • Pallin, W. A. (William Alfred), 1873-
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[1904]
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Credit: A treatise on epizootic lymphangitis / by W.A. Pallin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    immediately challenged by Tixier and Delamotte, who were misled by the co-existence of glanders amongst their patients, and they finally concluded that African farcy was identical with glanders (farcy) and, in this respect, history has repeated itself over and over again, as both in India in 1899, and in South Africa during the recent war, the disease was confounded with glanders, and in many cases for that very same reason, viz., the co-existence of both diseases, the one recognized and the other (being unfamiliar) not recognized until recently, as a separate disease. In France the unity of the different forms of farcy was acknowledged, and the African farcy was considered to be an attenuated form of glanders (farcy) until 1873, when Rivolta discovere the organism, viz., a cryptococcus. 3 In 1881 Chénier wrote an article explaining definitely the difference between farcy (glanders) and farcy (lymphangitis), pointing out that the latter disease only affects the lymphatic system and is not of the same nature as glanders, and that experimental inocula- tions of material from animals affected with the disease never produces true glanders. Finally, in 1883, Rivolta and Micellone published a paper containing a precise account of the nature of the disease ; they pointed out the constant presence in the pus from the nodules and cords of a particular organism, already described by Rivolta in 1873, in certain forms of farcy, and they state that there exists amongst horses a variety of farcy which may be called cryptococcic, (1) Because it is produced and develops from a cryptococcus. (2) Because the cryptococcus is always to be found in the abscesses and cords of the farcy. (3) Because the cryptococcus is also to be found constantly in isolated pustules or originally
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