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hit tly increased. In none of the cases recorded have they been 

 absolutely diminished. The eosinophils are usually few in num- 

 ber or absent during the height of the leucocytosis. As the leu- 

 cocytosis declines the percentage of polymorphs diminishes while 

 that of the lymphocytes shows a corresponding increase. 



TAKOSIS 



Mohler and Washburn in the investigation of this disease made 

 a few examinations of the blood. One goat examined during the 

 later stage of the disease had 11,208,000 red corpuscles. This 

 animal was suffering from profuse diarrhea. In two experimental 

 cases, suffering from profuse diarrhea, the first had 11,190,000 red 

 corpuscles and 20,560 leucocytes and the second 12,160,000 red 

 corpuscles and 18,420 leucocytes. The leucocytosis in both cases 

 was due chiefly to an increase in the polymorphs and eosinophiles. 

 In another case, natural infection, the red corpuscles were 

 10,208,000 and the leucocytes 14,860. Mohler and Washburn give 

 the normal number of red corpuscles for the goat as 9,976,000 and 

 of leucocytes 9,200. Storch gives the normal numbers as 14,567,000 

 and 12,057. But little change in the number of red corpuscles is 

 apparent from the examinations made. With violent purgation 



