TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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List of Illustrations ix 



List ov Reference Books xi 



Introduction xii 



CHAPTER I. 



General consideration concerning etiology, infection and 

 specific infectious diseases. ( Etiology, Infection, Channels 

 of infection. Wound infection. Bacteria causini; wound infec- 

 tion. Lesions presumably of wound infection origin that are 

 recognized as distinct maladies, Botryomycosis, Omphalophle- 

 bitis, White scours. Infectious suppurative cellulitis. Fistulous 

 withers and poll-evil, Infectious mastitis, A specific infectious 

 disease. The differential characters of a specific infectious 

 disease. Cause for the variation in the course of an infectious 

 disease, Grouping of specific infections diseases) i 



CHAPTER H. 



Diseases caused by streptococci 27 



General discussion of streptococci 27 



Strangles 33 



Equine contagious pleuro-pneumonia 37 



Apoplectiform septicaemia in chickens 44 



CHAPTER HI. 



Diseases caused by bacteria— genus bacterium 47 



Swine plague 47 



Hemorrhagica septicaemia in cattle 68 



Fowl cholera . 77 



Anthrax Si 



Infectious leukaemia in fowls 9^ 



Swine erysipelas — io7 



Glanders ^'3 



Tuberculosis i^7 



Ovine caseous lymph-adenitis 161 



Asthenia 167 



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