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C. BROWN. 
HAEMORRHAGIC SEPTICAEMIA IN CATTLE. 
By C. Brown, V. S., Neirrsvirre, Wis. 
I have had for the last fifteen years in the northwestern part 
of this State much trouble with cattle with a fatal disease. I 
recognized three forms of the disease—acute, subacute, and 
chronic. Not being able to find any bibliography on the sub¬ 
ject until recently, I first thought it some form of septicaemia. 
My joy cannot be imagined when I read a full report by Dr. 
Fenimore, of Tennessee, and another by the Minnesota State 
Board of Health, from which I write some of the history of pre¬ 
vious outbreaks. In nearly every month in the year for many 
years I have under my observation isolated outbreaks of some 
form of this disease. Some farmers come to me with the his¬ 
tory that they found some stock dead in the pasture or their cat¬ 
tle had a swelling in the neck and their legs were sore like 
scratches in the horse. In the months of July and August last 
year there came under my direct observation fifty-three cases of 
this disease, most all in the acute form. As I had an opportun¬ 
ity of observing the clinical symptoms and post-mortem lesions 
of many cases I report them. I may add that the acute form of 
this disease very much resembles gloss anthrax, in my estimation, 
—as I had an opportunity to observe both diseases side by side 
last year, as both were prevalent in this section. I observed the 
two diseases clinically, microscopically, and held post-mortems 
on cadavers of cattle from both diseases at one time. I find in 
the acute form in some cases the clinical symptoms are identical 
with gloss anthrax ; the only way I can differentiate between 
the two is by post-mortem and microscopical examination. Gen¬ 
eral symptoms in the acute form of rinderseuche in Wisconsin 
are a rise in temperature (41 degrees C.) ; swelling of the throat 
and neck, angina, ecchymosis of the mucous membranes, and 
a hsemorrhagic diarrhoea ; eating but little ; grinding the teeth, 
swelling of the tongue, staggering gait, hair-pin feathered 
epistaxis ; in milking cows complete agalorrhoea and quivering 
of the muscles of the flank, lying with the head to the side, 
