76 GOOSE SEPTICEMIA 
Post mortem notes.—These are a few taken from Curtice’s publication: 
“Goose No. 1. Died last night; quite fat. Right lung, ventral portion quite firm, 
whitish. Some flocculi of exudate in peritoneal cavity. Liver shows numerous point- 
like necrotic foci. Blood thick, blackish and tarry. Mucus glassy on dusky mucosze 
of nose and throat. 
“Goose No. 2. Died last night. Somewhat thinner than No. 1. Ecchymoses on 
fat in abdomen and gizzard and on heart muscle; necrosis in liver. Blood thick, tarry. 
Mucus in nasal passages. 
“Gander No. 7. Died last night; now cold. No well marked hemorrhagic lesion 
in pleuroperitoneal cavity. Whitish points in liver. Hemorrhagic or extremely 
hyperemic condition of duodenum. Jejunum, or second coil of intestine, filled with a 
glairy mucous fluid in which are suspended shreds and patches of food (?). Few if 
any necroses in liver.” 
Diagnosis. Goose septicemia is to be diagnosed from the bac- 
teriological examination. It is caused by a pasteurella which resem- 
bles that of fowlcholera. A diagnosis, therefore, is made positive by 
finding this organism in the tissue of the sick and dead geese. It is to 
be differentiated from other forms of infection from which geese may 
suffer. 
M’Fadyean has described a disease under this title causing the 
death of many geese in which he found the blood swarming with 
bacteria suggesting Bact. septicemiae hemorrhagicae but morphologi- 
cally different. He could not induce it to grow on any of several 
media in cultures under both aérobic and anaérobic conditions. It 
appears that this is a different disease from that described by Curtice. 
Prevention. The procedure that can be suggested at present is 
isolation of the well from the sick, repeating the separations as often 
as new cases appear. The infected pens should be thoroughly dis- 
infected before being reoccupied. 
REFERENCES 
1. Curticr. Goose septicemia. Bulletin No. 86, R. I. Agr. Exp. Station, 1902. 
2, M’Fapyran. A remarkable outbreak of goose septicemia. Jour. Compar. 
Path. and Therap., Vol. XV (1902), p. 162. 
Fowls and poultry of all kinds are subject to infections that are 
interesting in their nature and often fatal in their results. There is a 
large literature on the subject. The general statement may be made 
that all poultry seem to be susceptible to the Pasteurella. 
