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the fauces presented good lesions of rinderpest. The intestinal 

 tract did not show marked hemorrhagic lesions. 



IODINE 



Iodine was experimented with after reviewing the results of 

 the work done by Lambert, (l) in which he proves that iodine can 

 be used in strong enough dilution to destroy staphilococci and 

 still have no deleterious action upon living tissue cells. It was 

 thought that by using iodine in sufficiently large doses there 

 might be a possibility of destroying or attenuating the virus 

 to such an extent that the animal would be able to develop resist- 

 ance enough to recover. Potassium iodide was used to facilitate 

 the solution of iodine and also to have a direct action upon the 

 lymphatic system, which is markedly affected in rinderpest. 



EXPERIMENT 11. IODINE AND POTASSIUM IODIDE 



Batanes bull 4164. — This animal was injected January 13, 

 1917, with 50 cubic centimeters of virulent rinderpest blood from 

 No. 4165. 



January 16, this animal presented a rise in temperature, regis- 

 tering, in the afternoon, 40° C. 



January 17, forenoon temperature 39.7° C. ; afternoon, 

 40.2° C; diarrhoea. 



January 18, forenoon temperature 39.5° C. ; diarrhoea, not 

 eating; administered intravenously 1,000 cubic centimeters of 

 sodium chloride solution in which were dissolved 0.5 gram of 

 iodine and 1 gram of potassium iodide; withstood injection well; 

 afternoon temperature 39.8° C. 



January 19, forenoon temperature 37.4° C. ; diarrhoea, not eat- 

 ing; animal very sick; lying down; thick mucus discharge from 

 nose ; eyes sunken ; grinding teeth ; swallowing frequently ; blood 

 and mucus in faeces; catchy respiration. 



This animal died during the morning of the 19th. Upon au- 

 topsy it presented marked intestinal lesions of rinderpest. 



CREOLIN 



Creolin was used with the idea of trying to disinfect the 

 blood, by either killing or attenuating the virus of rinderpest 

 to such an extent that the animal would be able to acquire 

 enough resistance to combat the disease. 



EXPERIMENT 12 



Davao carabao 3271. — This animal was injected November 14, 

 1911, with 50 cubic centimeters of virulent rinderpest blood 

 from No. 3225. 



