OTHER INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIAS OF THE HORSE.
Claims have been made for infections by a variety of other germs which it would be difficult or unreasonable to deny. In given conditions of the horse’s lung it may succumb to the attacks of pathogenic microörganisms which at other times or under other conditions would be practically harmless. Thus the round ended bacillus of Friedländer is claimed by Jacquot and others to cause one form of pneumonia in the horse as it does in man (Vol. 1 p. 216). Again Galtier and Violet have claimed a form of pneumonia transmitted through musty or spoilt fodders and attacking the bowels as well as the lungs (pneumo-enteritis). Two micro-organisms are accused, a diplococcus and streptococcus, which is strongly suggestive of the now familiar germ of brustseuche.