. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. -;-x Argentina under the names of diarrhoea, enteque, or bovine pasteurellosis. The hypothesis has not been verified, and Lignieres' treatment, said by him to have succeeded in Argentina, always failed in Moussn'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, niarked in- flammation of the intestinal mucous
. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. -;-x Argentina under the names of diarrhoea, enteque, or bovine pasteurellosis. The hypothesis has not been verified, and Lignieres' treatment, said by him to have succeeded in Argentina, always failed in Moussn'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, niarked in- flammation of the intestinal mucous membrane. Symptoms. The onset is often over- looked. The diarrhoea 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 f,,., diarrhoea becomes exhausting; they \ M w^aste, 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 cow^s of four, seven, and eight years' bearing. The diarrhoea is serous, always foetid, and without tenesmus. The faeces 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 ahvays contain numerous bubbles of gas. The wasting during later periods of the disease is absolutely characteristic, and different from that of other w^asting diseases, such as chronic broncho-pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. The patients finally become w^alking 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 oedema common to wasting conditions appears,
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