TRYPANOSOMES, TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AND SLEEPING SICKNESS 39 
the parasites are scanty. After a tew days marked exacerbations, persisting for a few 
days, occur ; or the parasite may be scanty until only four to six days before death. 
The end can occur in sixteen to thirty days, depending on the virulency of the 
parasite and the method of inoculation. The animal at first presents very few 
symptoms, but when once the parasites are increasing rapidly a very decided and rapid 
anaemia/ together with emaciation, occurs. The animal continues to lose strength, 
death is usually preceded by a subnormal temperature. The usual post-mortem lesions 
met with in dogs dying from acute trypanosomic disease are met with. 
