ETIOLOGICAL MOMENT IN AMERICAN SWINE PLAGUE. 263 
so far as my conclusions can be based upon biological studies, I 
must conclude that the “ wildseuche,” “ schweineseuche ” and 
probably “ rabbit septicaemia ” and “ hen cholera,” are only dif¬ 
ferently appearing forms of one and the same infectious disease— 
the “ wildseuche ” or “ septicaemia haetnorrhagica,” as he technic¬ 
ally calls it. 
Admitting what I know to be a fact, that the “ wildseuche ” 
occurs in deer, cattle and swine, and at the same time admitting that 
it can and does occur in one or the other of these species and not 
necessarily in the others; admitting also that the “ wildseuche ” 
is accompanied by pneumonia and enteritis ; admitting that it can 
be artificially transmitted to rabbit, fowl, etc., and even to horses; 
admitting that no essential differences exist in the morpho-biolog- 
ical developing phenomena between the micro-etiological organ¬ 
ism and that of the German swine plague, still it does not justify 
Hueppe’s conclusion that the “wildseuche” and that disease are 
identical, any more than it would that the “ wildseuche ” is iden¬ 
tical with the American swine plague for the si^me reasons. 
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, we do not know 
whether we have the “ wildseuche ” among our deer or not, or 
even among our cattle and swine. 
Anyone who has read my description of that singular outbreak 
among cattle at Crete, Neb., must certainly have become convinced 
that 1 had to do with a very wild—in the English sense—disease, 
also that there was not a single lesion present of either the “ wild¬ 
seuche ” or our swine plague, yet the micro-organism previously 
described, found in the tissues of these animals, will fill the iden¬ 
tical requirements of Hueppe in nearly every morpho-biological 
particular; but no person would think of claiming that that dis¬ 
ease was either the “ wildseuche ” or swine plague. The almost 
absolute morpho-cultivatio-biological identity between Schuetz,s 
bacteria and Hueppe’s “ wildseuche ” and that of the American 
swine plague cannot be denied, yet that does not prove the iden¬ 
tity of the three diseases by any means. 
Hueppe’s hypothesis that the “ wild ” and German “ schweine¬ 
seuche ” are identical diseases (and on his grounds the American 
swine plague also) shows the folly of the “simon-pure” M.Ds 
