POULTRY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT 
the disease. Many points can be decided 
only by a pathologist with the aid of a mi- 
croscope, such, for example, as the difference 
between coccidial and bacterial diarrhea, 
but it is quite enough for the poultryman to 
realize that one of his fowls has died of an 
attack of an acute form of diarrhea and that 
the rest of his birds may become infected. 
The following notes draw attention to the 
main diagnostic symptoms observable on 
post-mortem examination, arranged under 
the heading of the organs affected. Other 
symptoms are put in parentheses. 
Post-MorTEM SYMPTOMS 
BRAIN 
Apoplexy—Shown by congestion of 
blood vessels of brain. (Staggering gait 
and sudden death.) 
HEART 
Cholera.—Punctiform hemorrhages are 
generally found in the heart in cases of 
cholera. (Yellow feces; diarrhea; sudden 
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