174 PARASITIC AMOEBAE OF MAN. 



patients who have died of amoebic dysentery. The 

 lesions were most marked just below the ileocascal 

 valve, where large areas of the mucous membrane 

 had been destroyed, the muscular coat of the intestine 

 being exposed. 



Kitten 5. This kitten was fed with milk contain- 

 ing Entamceba Ustolytica several times before dysen- 

 tery developed. The period of incubation was eight 

 days from the date of the last feeding, but from that 

 time, until it was killed, three weeks afterward, the 

 animal presented the symptoms of amoebic dysentery, 

 there being gradual loss of appetite, emaciation, and 

 a diarrhoeal discharge, containing blood and mucus, 

 with numerous motile Entamoeba histolytica. 



Autopsy. Body that of a half-grown kitten, 

 much emaciated. Subcutaneous fat entirely absent, 

 and muscles much atrophied. The pleural cavities 

 were free from fluid and the lungs and heart appeared 

 normal save for congestion. Upon opening the ab- 

 dominal cavity the small intestine appeared congested 

 externally. The liver is hypertrophied and greatly 

 congested. The kidneys are congested and enlarged 

 and upon section showed the lesions of an acute 

 parenchymatous nephritis. The large intestine was 

 dark gray in color externally, and was considerably 

 thickened, especially toward the rectum. Upon open- 

 ing the intestine it was found to contain much fecal 



