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forms three strata, the upper slightly yellow, semi-transparent 

 and formed of fibrine ; a median of a dull, opaque white color 

 and formed mainly of leucocytes and blood plates, and a lower of 

 a violet red and formed mainly of red globules. 



The amount of fibrine is variable. It becomes granular when 

 beaten. Albumen is variable but usually reduced. 



The visible mucous membranes are bloodless and of a clear 

 porcelain white. The walk becomes weaker, fore feet wide 

 apart and the hind limbs partly flexed, head and neck extended,, 

 and breathing labored. The breathing may be with constant 

 stertor, the bowels torpid and tympanitic, or loose and foetid, drop- 

 sies and haemorrhages ensue, and the patient dies in complete 

 marasmus. 



Diagnosis is mainly based on the changes in the blood. The 

 leucocytes should reach at least 150,000 per c.mm., and may 

 reach 1,000,000, mostty lymphocytes, though myelocytes (neu- 

 trophile) may be 20 to 60 per cent. If there are less than 150,000 

 leucocytes, and less than 90 per cent, lymphocytes it may be a 

 mere inflammatory leucocytosis. Eosinophile cells may reach 

 3,000 or even 100,000 in acute cases. Many of them being mono- 

 nuclear and containing large, deeply staining granules. 



Duration. The disease may prove fatal in less than a month,, 

 or it may last for three, six or eight months. It is mostly fatal. 



Not inoculable. Many attempts have been made to transmit it 

 by inoculation, but in no case with success. 



Treatment is not successful. All hygenic measures should be 

 adopted, as for anaemia ; open air and sunshine, with protection 

 against chills ; the treatment of all complications ; iron, bitters, 

 phosphorus, arsenic in particular, electricity to the spleen, mas- 

 sage ; oxygen inhalation ; and locally, iodide of potassium or 

 mercury, generally and locally. 



