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H. H. DELL. 
5 th. Everything indicates that these results are applica¬ 
ble to swine, and in keeping up experiments upon this animal, 
one may hope to obtain a serum able to exert a preventive 
and efficacious therapeutic action. 
FY/EMIA IN THE DOG. 
By H. H. Dell. 
A Paper read before the Montreal Veterinary Medical Association. 
1 have been guided in the selection of my subject for your 
consideration this evening by a desire to direct your attention 
to a disease but little referred to in our literature. I was 
quite unaware of the paucity of information in the text-books 
concerning pyaemia in the dog, until I began to consult the 
several libraries to which I have had access. Later on I will 
report in detail a case which came under my own observation 
and following an operation of the most trivial nature. 
Pyasmia is a disease characterized by recurrent chills and 
intermittent fever, with the formation of abscesses in various 
parts of the body resulting from contamination of the blood 
by the bacteria of suppuration. The point from which the 
bacteria and their products are distributed is usually a sup¬ 
purating wound. Thrombi frequently result, which degen- 
enerate and break down, the fragments being carried along 
in the blood-stream and thus convey the infection to organs 
far removed from the original seat of suppuration. The 
lymphatic system also may convey the infective material to 
distant organs. The disease is somewhat insidious in its nature, 
and for this reason frequently obtains a foothold upon the 
animal before it is suspected. 
The symptoms which are presented are occasioned by the 
inflammatory processes and the metastases. Fever of an 
intermittent type accompanied by chills is seen in all cases. 
The other symptoms vary with the organs most affected, and 
when we bear in mind the many organs in which the metas¬ 
tases occur, we are not surprised at the complexity of the 
symptoms. 
