SEPTICEMIA HEMORRHAGICA OF BOVINE ANIMALS. 



Synonyms. Definition. Historic notes. Resemblance to black quarter. 

 Bacteriology ; saprophytic cocco-bacillus, non-motile, aerobic, related to 

 microbe of swine plague, chicken cholera, and rabbit septicaemia. Patho- 

 genic to deer, buffalo, cattle, horses, swine, rabbits, rats, mice, goats, and 

 sheep. Variability; Vitality : great in soil, dies in 6 to 20 days when dried, 

 and quickly in antiseptics, resistant to heat. Accessory causes : rise of soil 

 water in winter or in spring, drying of marshes in summer, wet, rich, 

 swampy, mucky soils ; youth, gregariousness, carnivorous habit, insects, 

 vermin, wild animals and birds, epizoa, entozoa, wire fences, wounds of all 

 kinds, hard, woody provender ; inoculations in wounds the most fatal. 

 Symptoms : superficial with hyperthermia, functional disorder ; muscular 

 tremors ; violet mucosae ; segregation ; swelling in intermaxillary space, 

 tongue, throat, neck, dewlap, or elsewhere, not pitting on pressure. Pe- 

 techise. Death in six hours to four days ; thoracic form kills in four to 

 eight days ; abdominal form with colics, and bloody often frothy fcetid 

 faeces. Chronic forms usually pulmonary. Lesions : straw-colored exuda- 

 tions subcutem or intra-muscular ; blood extravasations ; in lungs resembles 

 lung plague ; on bowels blood effusions, and exudates ; softened, blood- 

 stained lymph glands. Spleen usually normal in size. Blood black. Pe- 

 techiae extensive. Chronic lesions. Bacillus in exudate, blood and bron- 

 chial mucus. Diagnosis : from anthrax, black quarter, lung plague, rin- 

 derpest, and malignant oedema. Mortality 50 to 80 per cent. Prevention : 

 isolate and kill affected ; destroy or disinfect carcasses and infected things 

 and places, feeding and drinking troughs and manure. Close and drain in- 

 fected fields. Immunization, by three inoculations with cultures made at a 

 high temperature (86° to 90°) in free air ; or with virus that has been grown 

 in pigeon. In case of deer, drive a few days into a non-infecting enclosure, 

 and then on to a sound range. Treatment. 



Synonyms. Wild — und Rinderseuche (Bollinger), Buffalo Dis- 

 ease, Barbone (Oreste and Armanni), Cornstalk Disease (Bill- 

 ings, Moore), Sporadic Pneumonia (Smith), Pneumoenteritis 

 (Galtier. ) 



Definition. An acute bacteridian disease of domestic and wild 

 herbivora and swine, characterized by sudden onset, rapid and 

 fatal course, marked hyperthermia, accelerated breathing and 

 pulse, and extensive gelatinoid or sanguineous extravasation in 

 the intermaxillary space, tongue, skin, subcutaneous or intermus- 

 cular connective tissue, lungs, pleura, pericardium or intestine. 



Historic Notes. It is almost certain that in earlier times this 

 affection was often mistaken for gloss-anthrax, blackquarter, or 



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