542 Veterinary Medicine' 



Treatment. Antiseptic washes and irrigations of the genito- 

 urinary passages, and the adjacent parts, if employed early 

 enough, would tend to abort the disease. Even if resorted to 

 later, they would be of some value in limiting the multiplication 

 of the microbe and the absorption of its toxins. For this purpose 

 boric or salicylic acid, salicylate of soda, permanganate of 

 potash, or silver nitrate may be taken as examples. They 

 should be as thoroughly applied as possible, the bladder being 

 thoroughly evacuated and injected several times a day. As in- 

 ternal medication, oil of turpentine and other stimulant anti- 

 septics that are eliminated by the kidneys might be tried in small 

 doses frequently repeated. Keep in slings. The patient that 

 cannot stand up is lost. 



Prevention. This consists in isolation of the health}', thorough 

 disinfection of the stalls, gutters, combs, brushes, rubbers, 

 blankets, and the hands of attendants. Litter used for the sick 

 should be burned and manure piles secluded and disinfected. 

 Even flies are to be dreaded, so that darkness in the stable, fly 

 nets, fly screens, and insect powder and other means of insect 

 destruction will be in order. Sponges and other means of dress- 

 ing should not be used indiscriminately on different animals. 



PROTOZOAN CATTLE FEVER. TEXAS FEVER. 

 PALUDISM OF CATTLE. 



Symptoms. Definition : protozoan, tick-borne, febrile, affection, of wild 

 damp lands, and warm seasons, with enlarged spleen and liver and haemo- 

 lysis. Historic Notes ; Old World ; Australia ; tropical and subtropical 

 America. Causes : contact of cattle from salubrious districts with the insalu- 

 brious or with cattle from such ; Piroplasma bigeminum ; a bovine parasite, 

 reducing red globules by 3{ths. ; successive forms of piroplasma ; the cattle 

 tick, boophilus bovis, bearer of piroplasma; demonstration of the tick 

 agency ; toxic saliva of tick ; toxic property in blood ; question of identity 

 of infection-bearing ticks. Lesions : putrefaction rapid, icterus, ticks, blood 

 oozing in skin, hydraemia, hsemoglobimemia, few red globules, small pete- 

 chise, slight serous exudates and effusions: congestion, petechiation, 

 sloughing, perforation of gastric mucosa, congestion of intestinal mucosa, 

 in rectum like port wine ; liver enlarged, congested, biliary radicles in acini 

 gorged with bile ; spleen enlarged, engorged ; kidneys cedematous, blood- 

 stained ; bladder petechiated ; urine opaque or red, in convalescence watery; 



