CHAPTER IX 



FOWL CHOLERA 



During the early part of 1 889 I became informed of 

 the existence of an acute and fatal epidemic disease 

 amongst fowls at a poultry-farm in Kent, which was 

 represented to me as being chicken cholera, and as I 

 had not till then come across or heard of the exist- 

 ence of chicken cholera in England, I was anxious to 

 obtain material from that farm. The fowls which I 

 received w^ere carefully examined and used for micro- 

 scopic examination, for cultivation, and for animal 

 experiment, and it very soon became evident that the 

 disease with which these fowls had been affected was 

 clearly distinct from chicken cholera ; it was a disease 

 which, though similar to, was in many important 

 points different from chicken cholera ; I have called 

 \x. foivl enteritis. In order that the reader may be in 

 a position to correctly understand these points of 

 similarity and difference, I will first describe the 

 nature of chicken cholera, known so well and so com- 



