402 SEPTIC BLOOD DISEASES. 



effect. Recovery is hastened by the administration of tonics. 

 It is essential to diet the animal upon sloppy food for the first 

 few days, when the early symptoms are observed, or otherwise 

 the treatment is of no avail." 



I think the success which seems to have attended Mr. Bell's 

 experience would be enhanced if the vagina and uterus — pro- 

 vided the tube of the syringe could be introduced through the 

 OS without force — were washed out at least twice a day, par- 

 ticularly at the commencement of the disease, with watery 

 solutions of boracic acid, Condy's fluid, weak solutions of cor- 

 rosive sublimate, or other well-known antiseptics ; and, to 

 counteract the odour of the intestinal discharges, the hyposul- 

 phite of soda might be administered with advantage. 



TRUE SEPTICEMIA. 



Multiplication of the Microlcs in the hody. — The symptoms 

 here do not depend upon the strength of the dose, the entrance 

 of the minutest quantity being sufficient to lead to a fatal result. 

 It is seen in braxy, septic metritis, &c., and also after the sup- 

 puration of a thrombus in phlebitis, when the septic emboli are 

 carried into the blood stream, lodge in the lungs and other 

 organs of the body, according to the seat of the initial lesion, 

 arid as a sequel to strangles and to suffocative catarrh — acute 

 bronchitis — when the catarrhal products are retained in the 

 bronchii until they become decomposed, and thus imprison the 

 blood stream. See Bronchitis. 



The symptoms are not in proportion to the dose, as in 

 saprsemia. There is sudden rise of temperature, prostration, 

 weak pulse, and death in a few days or hours from shock or 

 coma ; there are small haemorrhages into serous sacs, with 

 diarrhoea, pericarditis, endocarditis, pleurisy, &c. — See Septic 

 Metritis. Death is often preceded by subnormal temperature. 

 Acute pytemia resembles septicemia, indeed it might be described 

 as a secondary septicaemia, owing to the microbes in the emboli 

 being set free in the circulation, these multiplying and produc- 

 ing further quantities of septic ptomaines. Chronic pyiiemia 

 resembles hectic saprsemia. 



BRAXY. 



Septicccmia Gangrenosa. — Braxy. — Striking of Blood, &c. — Tliis 

 is a well-known disease of sheep, particularly of young one-year- 



