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Symptoms of septicaemia are according to the amount of 
poison absorbed. In the severe type there is a chill and sudden 
fever, with rapid rise of temperature, which is 102° F., or may 
go as high as 105 or 106° F. There is only one chill, or it may ' 
be a slight rigor, with rise of temperature. In the first forty 
eight hours they become restless, pulse weak and from fifty to 
eighty, or even higher; respiration increased ; diarrhoea in some 
cases, and offensive ; then pass into a comatose condition and 
die. Skin is generally dry, but may have profuse perspiration 
and bad smell from animal. Generally die in seventy-two hours, 
but if live a week or ten days are likely to recover, and perfectly. 
In pyaemia, the symptoms are usually well marked ; at first there 
is a rise of temperature 104 or 105° F., then a chill which lasts 
some.time but may take place at the time of the rise of the tem¬ 
perature, or a short time after, then perspires freely, after which 
time the temperature lowers a little, or in some cases it may have 
a marked rise. They now become restless and exhausted, then 
the symptoms abate and recur again with chill and sweat more 
profusely; pulse is rapid, weak and compressible; before each 
chill the animal is restless, after the sweat the patient becomes 
more composed. As the infractions occur in the different organs, 
will have symptoms belonging to these organs affected as local 
manifestations of the disease. Pyannia differs from septicaemia 
by the recurrence of the chills and sweating and a peculiar yel¬ 
lowishness of the conjuuctivae, and sometimes of the other visi¬ 
ble mucous membranes. 
The only question of importance that arose during the ensuing 
discussion, was whether or not a septic disease has an incubative 
stage. There was considerable diversity of opinion on this point, 
some of the members asserting that there can be no incubative 
stage to a septic disease, as the disease begins its development im¬ 
mediately and presents symptoms immediately, while others held 
that the poison could lie latent for a variable period and no con¬ 
stitutional symptoms wmuld be manifested, and considered this 
the incubative stage. 
A vote of thanks was unanimously extended to the essayist 
for his paper. 
