826 Measles. 



Other symptoms are faulty appetite, progressive anemia, 

 edematous infiltrations leading to caeliexia, and complete ex- 

 haustion. At times the body is not sufficiently supported on 

 account of the disease of the muscles of the chest, consequently 

 the anterior part of the chest between the shoulder blades sinks 

 somewhat lower, and the movements of the anterior extremi- 

 ties become stiff and cramped (Delpech). In other cases hoarse- 

 ness arises in consequence of involvement of the laryngeal 

 muscles, and this is especially evident when the annual is 

 caught. At the same time a short hollow cough will be noticed, 

 particularly during quick movements (Trasbot), also difficulty in 

 breathing may be present. In some cases the animal squeals 

 aloud when rooting about owing to the tenderness of the snout, 

 later on rooting ceases entirely and the animal takes grain food 

 very carefully by elevating the upper lip and snout (Greve) ; the 

 snout is also sensitive to pressure, Cysticerci in the brain may 

 cause restrained movements, dizziness, epileptoid attacks, arch- 

 ing of the back (pleurosthotonus, opisthotonus) or the symp- 

 toms of an acute cerebritis ; occasionally death may follow un- 

 expectedly from apoplexy. 



In cattle one very seldom notices any symptoms of disease 

 after a natural infection. Flemming relates that examination 

 of the tongue may also lead to a positive diagnosis in cattle. 

 Severe cysticercal lameness was noticed by Ciga in an ox, while 

 Schmidt found in a cow a cyst, the size of a pea, in the anterior 

 chamber of the eye. In a 10-year-old cow with severe cysticer- 

 cosis Ottle noticed high fever (41° C), rapid pulse, quickened 

 and labored breathing, groaning and intense itching at the 

 head; the animal had to be slaughtered. The disease is often 

 established after the slaughter of an animal, although it has 

 been unsuspected during life. 



Symptoms of illness were often absent after intense artificial infection, but 

 now and then transient indisposition, fever and muscular quivering were observed, 

 while in other cases, in addition to symptoms of an acute general illness, the disease 

 was accomijanied by pain in the thoracic and abdominal walls, stiffness on motion, 

 difficulty in breathing and weakness of the heart; finally exhaustion or j^aralysis of 

 the heart led to death (Leuckart, Ziirn). 



Ostertag showed that cysts in cattle could be a])sorbed after previous caseation. 

 This explains the fact that measles are found much more rarely in old cattle. 



In dogs the bladder worm of Taenia solium occurs only ex- 

 ceptionally. Symptoms of illness hitherto have been noticed 

 only when the brain has been affected more severely, and they 

 consisted chiefly in excitement, restrained movements, dizziness 

 in one case (Vogel), in blindness, and deep lethargy. In one 

 case of Trasbot & Eailliet where the muscles were infected by 

 numerous cysts, a marked hyperalgesia of the whole body 

 arose, which was visible on the slightest disturbance or move- 

 ment of the limbs, and as a result the animal scarcely moved 

 at all. 



Sufifran saw the development of cystic formations in the subcu- 

 taneous connective tissue of a dog affected with eystieercosis, while 



