TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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List of Iixustrations ix 



List OF Reference Books xi 



Introduction '^^ 



CHAPTER I. 



General consideration concerning etiology, infection and 

 SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. ( Etiology, Infection, Channels 

 of infection. Wound infection, Bacteria causin.<; wound infec- 

 tion, Lesions presumably of wound infection origin that are 

 recognized as distinct maladies, Botryomycosis, Omphalophle- 

 bitis, White scours. Infectious suppurative cellulitis, Fistulous 

 withers and poll-evil, Infectious mastitis, A specific infectious 

 disease, The differential characters of a specific infectious 

 disease. Cause for the variation in the course of an infectious 

 disease. Grouping of specific infectious diseases) i 



CHAPTER II. 



Diseases caused by streptococci 27 



General discussion of streptococci 27 



Strangles 33 



Equine contagious pleuro-pneumonia . 37 



Apoplectiform septicaemia in chickens 44 



CHAPTER III. 



Diseases caused by bacteria— genus bacterium 47 



Swine plague • 47 



Hemorrhagica septicaemia in cattle 68 



Fowl cholera 77 



Anthrax ^^ 



Infectious leukaemia in fowls 9^ 



Swine erysipelas I07 



Glanders "3 



Tuberculosis ^27 



Ovine caseous lymph-adenitis 161 



Asthenia 167 



