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haviiijj;' an olTensive odor; ij;reat tliirst, hlnisli disco-lora 

 tion of the comb, and doath either in a stupor or pre- 

 ceded In- c(>i'Vulsion.s. Alter death, the disscrliou of 

 the bird reveals niiiueidiis i"d spots on the internal 

 organs and especially on the inteslinos. Tiie lungs 

 are congested, .led, full of blood; (he liver is full of 

 blood and somewhat enlarged, and the blood itself is 

 dark and thick. The intestines sometimes contain a 

 red mass of clotted bloo-d. 



Another disease that is usually included with fowl 

 cholera is a form of infectious enteritis of chickens, 

 which consists in an inthimmation of the bowels that is 

 of a very severe type, and causes death witliin one or 

 two days after tlie beginning o-f the attack. The lirst 

 symptom is diarrhoea, tliere is loss of appetite and de- 

 pression, but the torpor is not so profound as in the 

 disease described above. 



MoFadyean has recently described an outbreak of 

 disease among turkeys that was characterized by an 

 inflammatioi of the lungs and pericardium. The 

 symptoms were general stiffness of the neck and 

 limbs, hanging of the wings and tail, roughness of the 

 feathers, ditlficult breathing, discliarge of frothy mucous 

 from the mouth, diarrhoea, with thin, whitish or yel- 

 low faeces and death. In this outbreak, a germ was 

 found that was in many respects similar to the germ 

 of fowl cholera, but presented points of difference that 

 were suffici( ntly well marked to enable him to classify 

 it as another organism. 



Eqizootic dysentery has been discovered among 

 chickens and ducks and reported upon by veterinarians 

 in a number of places. The disease begins as a 

 diarrhoea, usvially attacking young chickens first. 

 There is depression, chilliness, ruffling of the plumage, 



