POULTRY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT 



the disease. Many points can be decided 

 only by a pathologist with the aid of a mi- 

 croscope, such, for example, as the difference 

 between coccidial and bacterial diarrhea, 

 but it is quite enough for the poultryman to 

 realize that one of his fowls has died of an 

 attack of an acute form of diarrhea and that 

 the rest of his birds may become infected. 



The following notes draw attention to the 

 main diagnostic symptoms observable on 

 post-mortem examination, arranged under 

 the heading of the organs affected. Other 

 symptoms are put in parentheses. 



POST- MORTEM SYMPTOMS 



BRAIN 



Apoplexy. Shown by congestion of 

 blood vessels of brain. (Staggering gait 

 and sudden death.) 



HEART 



Cholera. Punctiform hemorrhages are 

 generally found ,in the heart in cases of 

 cholera. (Yellow feces; diarrhea; sudden 

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