654 Veterinary Medicine. 



Again if we suspect the existence of a necrobiotic agent of 

 organic origin (like ergotin, secalin, sphacelin) we must assume 

 a superadded microbian infection, implanted in the primary sore 

 and rapidly extending it. The prompt recovery under antiseptic 

 treatment shows that no mere chemical poison maintains the 

 destructive process, for it is manifestly the microbicide which puts 

 a prompt limit to the disease, and under such treatment no 

 sphacelating agent in the blood or tissues keeps up the advance 

 of the ulceration or prevents healing. 



Treatment. The ulcers healed rapidly under cleanliness and 

 antiseptic applications. The tail, anus, and vulva were washed 

 with tepid water, and then dressed with a solution of creolin 

 (5:100), or carbolic acid (3:100), or mercuric chloride (1:500 or 

 1000). The ulcers were touched with a pencil of silver nitrate. 

 S. T. Miller followed the sublimate lotion by the subjoined oint- 

 ment : iodoform 20 grains, eucalyptol 40 minims, phenic acid 20 

 minims, petrolatum enough to make 2 oz. C. Miller in addition 

 to the carbolic acid lotion applied the common white lotion (zinc 

 sulphate i oz., lead acetate i oz., water i qt.) and used silver 

 nitrate on the ulcers. Four dressings on four successive days were 

 given and in the milder cases healing was completed in 10 or 12 

 days. 



NOTE ON GOOSE SEPTICEMIA. 



As these pages are going through the press. Cooper Curtice's 

 bulletin on Goose Septicemia comes to hand. 



This affection in 1900 cau.sed a loss of 3,200 geese in July and 

 August to Mr. Cornell, a Rhode Island owner. Mr. Snell lost 

 500. 



Bacteriology. The blood and tissues swarmed with a minute 

 bacillus having the general morphological .staining and biologi- 

 cal characters of that of chicken cholera and rabbit septicaemia. 

 It differed from these in the failure to infect chickens, whether 

 inoculated or fed to them. It proved deadly to geese, ducks, 

 pigeons, rabbits, mice, and more slowly to Guinea pigs. Geese 

 were infected by inoculation or feeding of the germs, ducks from 

 inoculation only. 



Symptoms. The geese were often found dead, and even in those 

 noticed ill, death supervened so early that no very diagnostic 



