696 Veterinary Medicine. 



Animals susreptible. Besides cattle, dogs, Guinea-pigs and 

 rabbits are easily inoculated. In horses an abscess forms. 



Symptoms resemble those of actinomycosis, but it attacks 

 especially the skin and subcutaneous connective tissue, the liver, 

 spleen and omentum, and rarely the tongue, heart, lungs, 

 pharynx, lymph glands, mammae, or facial bones. At first the 

 size of a walnut, hard and insensible, they grow, as large as the 

 closed fist, soften and fluctuate. This softening tends to dis- 

 tinguish it from actinomycosis. The contents do not show 

 filamentous forms. The serum of the victims agglutinates the 

 actinobacillus cultures. 



Actinobacillosis is more readily transmitted by contagion than 

 actinomycosis. 



Treatment by iodide of potassium is equally effective, (Nocard-) . 



NOTE ON GOOSE SEPTICEMIA. 



The following is drawn from Cooper Curtice's bulletin on 

 Goose Septicamia. 



This affection in 1900 caused a loss of 3,200 geese in July and 

 August to Mr. Cornell, a Rhode Island owner. Mr Snell lost 

 500. 



Bacteriology. The blood and tissues swarmed with a minute 

 bacillus having the general morphological staining and biologi- 

 cal characters of that of chicken cholera and rabbit septicaemia. 

 It differs from these in the failure to infect chickens, whether 

 inoculated or fed to them. It proved deadly to geese, ducks, 

 pigeons, rabbits, mice, and more slowly to Guinea pigs. Geese 

 were infected by inoculation or feeding of the germs, ducks from 

 inoculation only. 



Symptoms. The geese were often found dead, and even in those 

 noticed ill, death supervened so early that no very diagnostic 

 symptoms were made out. The affected geese moved tardily and 

 unsteadily, and failed to keep with the remainder of the flock. 

 Some burrowed the head in the dirt and twisted it around, indi- 

 cating, it was supposed, spasms of the throat. Some were seized 

 with the death agony in a few minutes ; in others the illness 



