i 156 Pyo- Septicemia of Sucklings. 



with the secretion small tissue' shi^^ds or cartilaginous and bone 

 pAi'ticles may be discharged. 'The motility of the' affected Joints 

 is interfered with by the pain and by the tense and swollto 

 condition. The animal does not support the body with the 

 affected extl-emity, and protects it from touching the' floor. If 

 Several joints are affected at the sarhe titne, the animal 'iio 

 longer' ra'oves around, but lies constantly on the ground. 



The affection of the lungs is indicated by a painful cough 

 and rapidly increasing difficulty in respiration, which is later 

 associated with a- profuse nasal discharge, as an indication of 

 a developed purulent bronchitis. Percussion reveals only in 

 circlimscribed areas a dull or tympanitic' sound; by auscultation, 

 however, the most varied catarrhal sounds, such as whistling, 

 roaring, -moist rales, and in parts also bronchial breathing, may 

 be distinguished. Sometimes friction sounds may also be heard 

 over some parts of the lungs and the heart, indicating an acute 

 exudative iiiflammatioh of the corresponding serous menlbranes. 

 In siich cases the -patients lie much oh the chest with extremi- 

 ties drawn under the body, or with legs extended. 



In the presence of an inflammation of the bfain and its 

 membranes, the patients are much depressed and d^^thetic. 

 Sbmetimes chronic spasms inay be noticed in some of the rriiis- 

 clesor groups of muscles, or'the animal may struggle' 'consid- 

 erably. With relative freqilency, symptoms of meningitis may 

 be present as ' the result of the ' extension of the inflammation 

 to the' medulla; still later paralysis may 'appear in the extremi- 

 ties, or in the territory of some of the facial nerves. 



Symptoms showing disturbances of the digestive organs 

 are hardly ever absent, and in some cases they may even be 

 present at the onset of the disease. Severe colicky syniptoms 

 may appear when the animals lie in a cramped condition on 

 the ground with'the head turned toward the abdomen ; touching 

 of the abdomen causes considerable pain. The constipation 

 which is at first present is followeci by diarrhea, the animals 

 passing first light, later dark Colored, and very fetid, fluid feces. 

 The feces soil the pa,rts around the anus, and later the excre- 

 ments arid urine are passed involuntarily. 



In the meantime the animals become greatly emaciated, 

 they lose 'their strength, the eyes are sunken deep into the 

 orbits, the action of the heart becomes accelerated and weak, 

 the body temperature drops below normal, the extremities, the 

 face and the ears become cold, the body is covered Avith per- 

 spiration, and finally the patients die, with symptoms of con- 

 vulsions or without any struggle. Death may occur before the 

 progress of the disease through the stftges described, from 

 asphyxiation or paralysis of the brain. 



in cases of pure septicemia only high fever and Severe 

 diarrhea, sometimes also hematuria are observed ; in such cases 

 the patients die within a few days as they rapidly lose strength. 



