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.