374 The Diseases of Animals 
almost all cases; this may be considered as a marked 
symptom of this disease. Young cattle-ticks will be 
found on the belly, inside of the thighs, on the fore- 
legs or brisket. They are very small, and a_ close 
examination is often necessary to reveal them. 
Post - mortem examination reveals the following 
changes: The gall-bladder is distended with a dark 
tarry, or thick granular bile. The spleen is greatly 
enlarged and of a tarry consistency, hence the name, 
“splenic fever.” The bladder contains a quantity of 
dark red urine. 
There is no known satisfactory medicinal treatment. 
As soon as the disease occurs, all well cattle should be 
removed from tick-infested ground and away from 
tick-infested cattle. The ticks can be scraped off by 
using a dull knife, provided there are but a few cattle 
and they ean be handled. The ticks so removed should 
be destroyed. Sick eattle should be made as comforta- 
ble as possible, watered frequently, and kept out of the 
hot sun. If they will eat, laxative green food may he 
given, such as green corn-fodder. Dreneching sick 
eattle with sweet milk is also to be recommended. 
Texas fever ean be prevented by a strict quarantine 
against tick-infested eattle, as the eattle-tick is the 
only way, so far as known, by which the disease is 
transmitted. Southern eattle do not spread the disease 
during cold weather. The ticks are destroyed hy the 
cold as soon as they drop from the bodies of cattle, 
or the eggs are destroyed, so that no young ticks hatch. 
If the ticks are all removed from sonthern eattle, the 
latter do not commnnieate the disease. The introduc- 
