. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. 208 ENTERITIS. Argentina under the names of diarrhcea, cnteque, or bovine pasteurellosis. The hypothesis has not been verified, and Lignieres' treatment, said by him to have succeeded in Argentina, always failed in Moussu's hand. The only point which seems admissible is that this disease, which Moussu considered to have analogies with chronic sporadic dysentery in man, is due to one or several organisms, which develop in the intestine and produce toxins, causing diarrhoea, without, however, marked in- fiammation of the intestin
. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. 208 ENTERITIS. Argentina under the names of diarrhcea, cnteque, or bovine pasteurellosis. The hypothesis has not been verified, and Lignieres' treatment, said by him to have succeeded in Argentina, always failed in Moussu's hand. The only point which seems admissible is that this disease, which Moussu considered to have analogies with chronic sporadic dysentery in man, is due to one or several organisms, which develop in the intestine and produce toxins, causing diarrhoea, without, however, marked in- fiammation of the intestinal mucous membrane. Symptoms. The onset is often over- looked. The diarrhcea gradually in- creases without appearing to be very serious; but it persists in varying de- grees of intensity. The patients do not appear to suffer, and do not lose their appetite or spirits, but in time the diarrhcea becomes exhausting; they waste, and after some months become excessively thin and poor. Intestinal peristalsis becomes exag- gerated without the existence of colic or tympanites. The evacuations are fre- quent, and little by little the abdomen retracts, until, in horseman's parlance, "the belly is up to the back," even in cows of four, seven, and eight years' bearing. The diarrhcea is serous, always foetid, and without tenesmus. The ffeces may either be very soft or be passed in veritable jets. They are always a little discoloured, and frequently contain grain or undigested forage. They always contain numerous bubbles of gas. The wasting during later periods of the disease is absolutely characteristic, and different from that of other wasting diseases, such as chronic broncho-pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. The patients finally become walking skeletons. The red corpuscles of the blood progressively decrease, until the number may fall as low as 800,000 or even 500,000 red corpuscles instead of six millions, the normal figure. The tedenia common to wasting conditions appears, and th
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