EDITORIAL. 
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7. The chief and most constant manifestations of the dis¬ 
ease are fever and albuminuria. The former is remittent or in¬ 
termittent, not uncomlnonly at more or less regular intervals, 
while the latter is transitory and frequently synchronous with the 
febrile exacerbations. 
8. Many cases of swamp fever terminate fatally without a 
marked reduction in the red blood cells, a fact denying the popu¬ 
lar conception of “ swamp fever ” being primarily an anaemia. 
9. The blood of an animal may remain virulent for as long 
as 35 months after the initial infection without the infected horse 
manifesting any clinical evidence of the fact. 
10. Such non-clinical infection carriers probably play an im¬ 
portant part in the establishment of more or less permanent cen¬ 
ters of infection. 
11. Both trypan, blue and atovyl, are worthless in the treat¬ 
ment of the disease. 
12. In the light of our present knowledge we have to de¬ 
pend upon such prophylactic measures as the destruction of dis¬ 
eased animals, segregation of suspects, care in introducing new 
horses in the stable, the safeguarding of food and water supply 
from urine contamination, pasture drainage and stable disinfec¬ 
tion. 
A. L. 
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