Plague; its cause and the manner of its extension, its menace, its control and suppression, its diagnosis and treatment . ed and the fabrication of the giving details of rat catching and rat-proofing are also presented and notes showing thelocation of dead rats found in relation to dead hu-man bodies of plague victims. Notes concerning cases of multiple house in-fection are also presented as being of possible in-terest. The Javan studies in 1911 and 1912 establishthe fact that it is possible to form a fair judgmentas to the length of time a rat has been dead, up toten or twelve
Plague; its cause and the manner of its extension, its menace, its control and suppression, its diagnosis and treatment . ed and the fabrication of the giving details of rat catching and rat-proofing are also presented and notes showing thelocation of dead rats found in relation to dead hu-man bodies of plague victims. Notes concerning cases of multiple house in-fection are also presented as being of possible in-terest. The Javan studies in 1911 and 1912 establishthe fact that it is possible to form a fair judgmentas to the length of time a rat has been dead, up toten or twelve days, from the condition and appear-ance of the rat cadaver, both as to decomposition anddrying. A series of 50 rats was studied. It is tobe understood that the conditions under which theseobservations were made were tropical would be fairly comparable with summer con-ditions in America, but should not be followed tooclosely at other seasons of the year. In my ownexperience I have observed that ants are hkely toattack the cadaver early and to obscure the deduc-tions by their destruction of the PROGRESSIVE POST-MORTEM CIIAxVGES IN RAT CADAVERS. THE XUMBERSINDICATE THE NUMBER OF DAYS AFTER DEATH ITS CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION 105 Dayi after deatb Appearance First to third day. . .Distention of the abdomen, in-creasing. Second to third day. .Loosening of hair by gentle pull-ing. Third to fourth of the epidermis by gentle pulling. Third to fifth day. . Perforation of abdominal wall with collapse and disappearance ofdistention. This perforationmay result from bursting of ab-dominal wall, or through anus,vulva or thorax. Fourth to sixth shrinking of the body. Swarming of maggots. Spon-taneous shedding of tufts ofhair. Fifth to eighth day. .Drying of body. Eighth to twelfth dryness and rigidity. Photograph (after Publications of the CivilMedical Service in Netherlands^ India) shows theprogressive postmortem changes in rat cada
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