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and according to various European reports, is attended by 

 a mortalit}' of about 4 per cent which it is affirmed exceeds the 

 total loss caused b}- epizootic erysipelas when allowed to run 

 its course unmolested. 



Metschnikoff found that the blood of immunized rabbits 

 was antitoxic, and Lorenz maintains that the serum of swine 

 which have recovered from swine erysipelas is also antitoxic, 

 and will produce immunity in other animals. The treatment 

 introduced by Lorenz is to inject the immunizing serum in the 

 proportion of i cc. to every 10 kilogrammes of the body weight 

 of the animal. Two days afterward 0.5 to i.o cc. of virulent 

 culture is injected, and after twelve days the dose is doubled. 

 Lorenz inoculated 294 pigs ; twelve were suffering from swine 

 erysipelas, and of these 6 recovered and 6 died. 



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1. Bang. Ueber Rothlauf-Endocarditis bei Schweinen. Deutsche 

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2. Jensen. Die Aetiologie des Nesselfiebers und der diffuse n 

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3. LoEFFLER. Experimentelle Untersuchungen iiber Schweiiie- 

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6. Lorenz. Schutzimfungen gegen den Rothlauf der Schweine. 

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7. MoORE. Mouse septicaemia bacilli in a pigs spleen -with some 

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Vet. Archives. Vol. XIII. (1892). p. 333. 



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9. ScHUTz. Ueber den Rothlauf der Schweine und die Impfung 

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10. Smith. An Examination of Pasteur's Vaccine for Rouget. 

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