AMMAI. - .-J 9S 



two or three drops of alcoholic solution of methylene-l.lue ; 



wwh off 



H KMATOZOA OF 



Aeeording to Danilewsky, birds suffer f,,, m malaria in Uth - m 

 acute and a chronic form. The haematozoa ,, 

 those found in malaria in , llalif ailll :inv ,1,,,,, ,, in -. IVIKV may ^ 

 attributed to the different character of the blood in birds. Graari 

 and Feletti have described two kinds of malarial ha-mato/,, 

 1-irds, one kind belonging to the genii* ffmamcA* and th- o( 

 to the genus 



H.EMATOZOA OF Tl'KT! 



Danilewsky has also minutely described and figured hsemato/- 

 the blood of turtles, which in some stages of their life hist 

 do>ely resemble those found by Laveran in man. 



H^MATOZOA OF EQUIXES AND CAMELS (SURRA DISEASE.) 



Surra is a blood disease occurring in hoi-so, mnl. 

 i-haracterised by fever accompanied by jaundice, petechiae of mucous 

 membranes, great prostration, and rapid wasting terminating in 

 death. The average duration of the disease is about tu.> m.-ntl^. 

 No organic lesions are found after death, but a para in 



the blood during life. By means of subcutaneous inoculation. 

 by the introduction into the stomach of blood containing 

 parasite, the disease, according to Evans, can be ti. to 



healthy animals. The importance of this disM>- may be reali 

 from the fact that on one occasion in India tin- :!nl Punjab <'a\. 

 lo>t no less than three hundred horses from it. 



The disease has not been observed to be contagious 

 in the ordinary sense, but the possibility of its conveyance by means 

 of large brown flies has been sugg->t.-d. These flies attack ; 

 horses so vehemently that the blood frequently streams from tin- 

 bit*->; and the opinion that they propagate th- .li>.M>- i- | 

 among the natives. At the same time it has been j.articularls 

 noted that where the disease ha- broken mit the water * 

 Impure, 



Kv.-m> discovered a hiemato/.,N,n, in Issn, in all 1 1,,- -liM-ased howes- 

 and mules examined ; in all di.--. b, with a 



in the dogs which had Wn >ubj.-- 



38 



