. Diseases of poultry; their etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Poultry. Diseases of the Circulatory System 191 shows enlargement of liver and spleen. The crisis of the disease occurs on the fourth or fifth day. In fatal cases the fever disappears and the temperature sinks to below normal shortly before death. Etiology. — This disease is caused by a spirochsete {Spiro- chceta gallinarum) found in the blood and in the liver and spleen. According to Balfour' the parasitic organisms. Fig. 34. — Bird suffering from spiroohaetoais. (From Kolle and Hetsch.) enter the blood corpuscles. B
. Diseases of poultry; their etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Poultry. Diseases of the Circulatory System 191 shows enlargement of liver and spleen. The crisis of the disease occurs on the fourth or fifth day. In fatal cases the fever disappears and the temperature sinks to below normal shortly before death. Etiology. — This disease is caused by a spirochsete {Spiro- chceta gallinarum) found in the blood and in the liver and spleen. According to Balfour' the parasitic organisms. Fig. 34. — Bird suffering from spiroohaetoais. (From Kolle and Hetsch.) enter the blood corpuscles. Both the organisms and the corpuscles then degenerate. According to Lounoy and Bruhl - the number of erythrocytes may be reduced one- half in five days. A favorable turn at the crisis of the dis- ease is due, according to Levaditi and Manouclian,' to the 1 Balfour, A. S., " Spirochsetosis of Sudanese Fowls — an After ; Jour. Trop. Med. and Hyg., Vol. 11, p. 37, 1908. 2 Lounoy, L., and Bruhl, M. L., Ann. Inst. Pasteur, T. 28, pp. , 1914. ^ Levaditi and ManoucHan, Ann. Inst. Pasteur. T. 20, pp. 593-600, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pearl, Raymond; Surface, Frank Macy, 1882- joint author; Curtis, Maynie Rose, 1880- joint author. New York, The Macmillan Company
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