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SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 



Table XXX. — Examinations of Two Fatal and Four not Fatal Cases of Anthrax 



in Cattle 



lirst symptom 8-VII, 

 died 2 hrs. after exam, 

 first svmptom 26-VII, 

 died 29-VII. 



first symptom 29— VI, 



recovered, 

 first symptom 7— VII, 

 Bact. anth. in blood. 



recovered. 



first symptom 10-V. 



recovered. 



first symptom 15-YII. 



Bact. anth. in blood 



on 15-YII. 



recovered. 



GLANDERS 



There is generally more or less anemia present in cases of 

 glanders. In some cases, serious ones, the anemia may be masked 

 by a polycythemia due to concentration of the blood by loss of 

 fluid from it. 



Mikrukow found in horses and cats that the red corpuscles are 

 diminished in two to three days after infection and sink toward 

 the end of the disease to one-third the normal number, that the 

 hemoglobin decreases gradually and that the red corpuscles are 

 of smaller size in glandered than in healthy animals. Schindelka 

 includes glanders among the diseases in whose course there is a 

 decrease of hemoglobin. Prus reports that the red corpuscles are 

 diminished to 4-5 millions and that the blood plates are increased 

 to 700,000-1,600,000 per cmin. Burnett and Pearce found a 

 moderate anemia in the greater number of their cases. In one of 

 their cases, a very pronounced one, there was a moderate poly- 

 cythemia. The animal, an aged mare, was much emaciated. Evi- 

 dently the polycythemia was due to withdrawal of fluid from the 

 blood by exudation. Mielke did not find the red corpuscles dimin- 

 ished in any of his cases except one which also had petechial fever. 



