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baviii<i au offensive odoi-; !j;i-eat thirst, liiiiish disci>l<)ra 

 tion of the comb, and death either in a stupor or pre 

 ceded bv ci.i.vulsioRs. After death. Die dissection of 

 the bird reveals uiinieimis r'^d spo.ts on the internal 

 organs and especially on tlie intestines. The luugs 

 are congested, red, full of blood; the liver is full of 

 blood and somewhat enlarged, and the blodd itself is 

 dark and thick. The intestines soiiirtiiues (ontain a 

 red mass of doited hloixl. 



Another disease that is usually included with fowl 

 cholera is a form of infectious enteritis of chickens, 

 which consists in an inflammation of the bowels that is 

 of a very severe type, and causes death within one or 

 two days after the beginning cf the attack. The first 

 symptom is diarrhoea, there is loss of appetite and de- 

 pression, but the torpor is not so profound as in the 

 disease described above. 



McFadyean has recently described au outbreak of 

 disease among turkeys that was characterized by an 

 inflararratioi <vf the lungs and pericardium. The 

 symptoms were general stiffness of the neck and 

 limbs, hanging of the wings and tail, roughness of the 

 feathers, difficult breathing, discharge of frothy mucous 

 from the niouth, diarrhoea, with thin, whitish or yel- 

 low faeces and death. In this outbreak, a germ was 

 found that was in many respects similar to the germ 

 of fowl cholera, but })resented points of difference that 

 were sullBci( ntly well marked to. enable him to classify 

 it as another organism. 



Eqizootic dysentery has been discovered among 

 chickens and ducks and reported upon by veterinarians 

 in a number of places. The disease begins as a 

 diarrhoea, usually attacking young chickens first. 

 There is depression, chilliness, ruffling of the plumage, 



