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_ Veterinary Police. Police measures adopted for other con- 

 tagious diseases may also be recommended for erysipelas, and 

 particularly quarantine of the premises — ^in more extensive 

 outbreak even the township, prohibition of marketing the ani- 

 mals, harmless disposition of carcasses, disinfection of infected 

 localities, etc. From the quarantined premises or townships 

 the transportation of animals to abattoirs for immediate 

 slaughter should be permitted. The observation period after the 

 apparent disappearance of the disease should extend from 10 

 to 15 days. 



Literature. Pasteur, Eev. vet., 1883, 39.— Pasteur & Thuillier, Bull, de 

 TAcad. de med., 1883, Nr. 45.— Eggeling, D. Z. f. Tm., 1884, X, 234.— LoefBer, 

 Arb. d. G-.-A., 1885, I, 46.— Schiitz, Ibid. p. 56.— Lydtin & Schottelius, D. Eotlauf d. 

 Schweine, Wiesbaden, 1885.— Bang, D. Z. f. Tm., 1892, XVIII, 27.— Jensen, Ibid., 

 p. 278.— Kitt, Monh., 1894, V, 19.— Lorenz, D. t. W., 1897, 91; Cbl. f. Bakt., 1893, 

 XIII, 357.— Leclainehe, Soc. biol., 1897, 428; 1899, 346.— Voges & Schiitz, A. f. 

 Tk., 1898, XXIV, 173.— Bauermeister, 1902, XXVIII, 66 (Lit.).— Preisz, Hb. d. p. 

 M., 1903, III, 710 u. IV., 1286 (Lit. on etiol. and immunization).— Stadie, Diss., 

 Berlin, 1904 (Lit. on biol. of erysip. bae.). — Eisenmann, Monh., 1906, XVII, 07.— 

 Sehipp, D. t. W., 1910, 98. 



The Disease in Man. From the literature a considerable number of 

 cases are known (Casper, Nevermann, Welzel, Hennig, Gleieh, Zipp and 

 others) to have occurred in men occupied in handling hogs affected 

 with erysipelas, or who worked with cultures of the bacilli (immuniza- 

 tion). It was observed that after slight injuries to the skin erysipelas- 

 like reddening of the skin and swelling of the neighboring lymph gland 

 developed sometimes even exfoliation of the blackish-red epidermis with 

 exudation of serum, and occasionally even swelling of the neighboring 

 joints. The disease usually terminated within four weeks in recovery 

 (in^Roder's case it lasted for 12 weeks), which is considerably hastened 

 by subcutaneous injections of immune serum (10 cc). 



Prom eating meat of hogs affected with erysipelas no attacks have 

 been observed. Lubowsky, however, found large quantities of bacteria 

 in the feces of a boy which were identical with the erysipelas bacillus. 

 The boy suffered from jaundice and intestinal catarrh, the cause of which 

 was unknown. 



Literature. Eosenbach, Z. f. Hyg., 1909, LXTII, 343 (Lit.).— Eoder, Mitt, 

 d. bad. Ta. 1908, 11.— Gleieh, B. t. W., 1909, 576.— Zipp, Tijdsskr., 1909, 98.— 

 Lubowsky. D.«m. W., 1910, 116. 



5. Hemorrhagic Septicemia. Septicaemia Hemorrhagica, 



Hueppe 



(Septicaemia pluriformis, Kitt; Pasteur ellosis, Lignieres.) 



Under the collective name of hemorrhagic septicemia are 

 included all those diseases which are produced by varieties of 

 the bacillus bipolaris septicus (Bac. multocida s. plurisepticus, 

 Kitt; Pasteurella, Lignieres) and in which the acute cases are 

 characterized by manifestations of a general infection and 

 hemorrhagic inflammatory processes of the internal organs. 



History. Perroncito and Semmer (1878) and later Pasteur (1880) 

 by the study of chicken cholera, Gaffky (1881) of rabbit septicemia. 



