66 Stable Management and the Prevention of Disease 



Loodiana fever, and, doubtless, many cases of what English 

 ofi&cers believed to be that disease had recovered under his 

 treatment. When it appeared at Eawul Pindi in 1878, the 

 general commanding the garrison sent for him without delay. 

 He arrived about two days after the horses were first 

 attacked, and was found to be as powerless in curing it as 

 other practitioners. 



Causes. — The cause of Loodiana fever is evidently some 

 kind of blood-poison associated with, or perhaps identical 

 with, the bacteria of anthrax. In 1878 I sent Mr. Fleming, 

 I.V.S., some blood of a horse which died with the disease .at 

 Eawul Pindi. It was examined by Professor Duguid, and 

 found to contain great quantities of the anthrax bacilli. A 

 guinea-pig inoculated with this blood died in two days, and 

 the local exudation under its skin, as well as the spleen and 

 the blood generally, were discovered to be swarming with 

 bacilli of the same kind. 



Symptoms. — The first sign of Loodiana disease in horses is 

 sometimes only a slight dulness, soon and invariably followed 

 by fever. 



The symptoms succeeding this are various, depending pro- 

 bably either upon one part of the patient's system being weaker 

 than the rest, or upon more of the poison accumulating in one 

 part than another. 



In some cases the brain is chiefly affected, when there is 

 drowsiness, followed by speedy death. 



In other instances the brain is not affected primarily, but 

 becomes congested by the pressure of lymph, effused in the 

 neck, impeding the flow of blood from the head. 



In other cases the disease is concentrated in the digestive 

 organs more than in other parts, producing symptoms of colic 

 or enteritis. 



In the great majority of horses attacked, a swelling appears 

 round the throat, at a longer or shorter period after the first 

 signs of fever. This swelling increases in size, and extends 

 down the lower side of the neck towards the chest, filling up 

 the hollow between the trachea and muscles where the carotid 

 artery and jugular vein lie. There is a discharge from the 



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