6o4 Veterinary Medicine. 



loss of appetite, dulness, languor, costiveness, scanty urine, al- 

 buminous but not hsemoglobinuric, pallor of the mucosae, and 

 marked loss of condition. Examination of the blood shows the 

 presence of the parasite in the red globules but usually in the 

 coccus or round form only, and the destruction and disappearance 

 of the globules is much less marked so that, though the blood is 

 anaemic and watery, it is not nearly so much so asjn the violent 

 and fatal cases. Without the examination of the blood it may be 

 impossible to distinguish these cases from other febrile afEections, 

 yet occurring as they do in the infected district in a number of 

 animals at once, in the cooler season, and showing albuminuria, 

 and marked anaemic symptoms, they should lead to suspicion 

 and a search for the boophilus on the skin, and the oligocj'themia 

 and the protozoa in the blood. 



Differential Diagnosis from Anthrax. As anthrax is the one 

 disease with which Texas fever is most likely to be confounded, 

 it may be profitable to collect in tabular form their differential - 

 features. 



