ENZOOTIC BACTERIAN HEMOGLOBINURIA OF CATTLE. 
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ENZOOTIC BACTERIAN HEMOGLOBINURIA OF CATTLE. 
By M. Y. Babes. 
This disease is enzootic in Roumania, especially in the low 
and marshy lands lying along the Danube, and has often been 
mistaken for rinderpest. But after the elimination of that scourge 
from the Roumanian territory, the other disease remains refrac¬ 
tory to all sanitary measures. In some localities it makes its 
appearance with regularity every summer, and spreading from 
these centers, its course is marked with great and widely diffused 
mortality. There have been years when from 30 to 50,000 head 
of cattle (oxen) have been carried off. Its effects are lighter 
upon cows, and calves do not suffer from it. The author has seen 
badly kept wells which formed the center and produced the nu¬ 
clei of infection. The disease is of but few days’ continuance. 
The symptoms are prostration ; loss of appetite; difficulty of lo¬ 
comotion ; high fever, with accelerated pulse and respiration; 
reddish and albuminous urine, often containing hemoglobine; in 
some cases constipation, and in others diarrhoea and tenesmus. 
At this point many animals recover from the disease. Others, 
more numerous, continue to lose flesh and strength and remain 
prostrate, while the febrile symptoms increase, the urine becom¬ 
ing dark red, almost black in color; muscular twitchings occur ; 
an abundant flow of tears takes place, and there is some sub-cut¬ 
aneous oedema. The post-mortem reveals a slight hyperemia of 
the pharynx and larynx, with congestion, catarrh and echymosis 
of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane. 
The small intestine often contains a large quantity of reddish 
brown liquid and hemorrhagic nuclei, with loss of substance of 
the mucous membrane, due to th epentastoma denticulatum. The 
mucous coat of the large intestines is often ecchymotic, and covered 
with a gelatinous mucus, its cavity containing dry foecal masses. 
The follicles of the intestines are slightly altered, and the sub- 
peritoneal tissue, where the intestinal lesions exist, is oedematous 
and hemorrhagic. The peritoneal glands are swollen, injected 
and soft. The peritoneal tissue is always hemorrhagic and 
