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Friedberger and Fröhner's Veterinary pathology : Authorised translation / Tr. and edited by M.H. Hayes with notes on bacteriology by G. Newman.

  • Friedberger, Franz, 1839-1902.
Date:
1898-
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Credit: Friedberger and Fröhner's Veterinary pathology : Authorised translation / Tr. and edited by M.H. Hayes with notes on bacteriology by G. Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spiritus camphorte. Its stimulant action is valuable in combatting the excessive weakness. The various modern antipyretics may also be tried. The antiseptic treatment of the wound plays the principal part in traumatic septicaemia. In pyemia, which is almost always incurable, the same remedies are used as in septicemia. The treatment is essentially surgical. Septicemia of Fowl.—Legrain and Jacquot have described a form of pyemia which is peculiar to fowl, and which frequently occurs in Lorraine, where it causes great loss. It is characterised by extensive abscesses on the head and neck, and especially about the eyes. If these abscesses are left alone, they may produce a chronic septicemia, which leads to severe and pro¬ gressive emaciation that ends in death; but if treated surgically, they rapidly heal. The disease can be transmitted to pigeons (which die in from fifteen to thirty hours) and mice, and is caused by short, stout bacilli which have rounded and shining ends. These bacilli are from 1 to 2 /x long, and cannot be stained by Gram’s method. Their cultures, according to Legrain and Jacquot, resemble those of the bacillus septicus agrigenus of Nicolaier, the bacillus saprogenus of Rosenbach, and the bacillus pyogenes fcetidus of Passet, which these authors consider to be identical with each other. The poultry infect themselves on the dunghills in which they seek their food. Septicaemia of Geese.—Sakharoff describes a typhus-like summer epidemic of Russian geese, which manifests itself by high fever, diarrhoea, and emaciation, and runs a fatal course in about a week. He found in the blood of living animals, spirochete anserina, which resemble the spirilla cf relapsing fever, and which he successfully transmitted to geese.
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