Volume 1

Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals / by Franz Hutyra and Josef Marek.

  • Hutyra, Ferenc, 1860-1934.
Date:
1916-1917
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Credit: Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals / by Franz Hutyra and Josef Marek. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infectious Diseases I. Group ACUTE GENERAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1. Anthrax. Febris carbunculosa (Splenic Fever; Milzbrandfieber, Milzfieber, Karbunkelkrank- het [German]; Fievre charbonneuse, Charbon bactéridien [French]; Antrace, Febbre carbonchiosa [Italian].) Anthrax is an acute, febrile, infectious disease of domestic animals, particularly of ruminants and horses, caused by the bacillus anthracis, and characterized anatomically by an acute swelling of the spleen and by serous hemorrhagic infiltrations of the subcutaneous and subserous connective tissue. History. The disease was known by its present name in the oldest times (&y#oaé—coal, on account of the black color of the blood), but it was confused with other diseases disclosing similar symptoms until the middle of the last century. Its contagiousness was first established by Hilert in 1836 by successful inoculations as well as by the feeding of anthrax blood, and by Gerlach in a similar manner a few years later (1845). In the year 1850 Davaine, and Rayer, in 1855 Pollender and soon after Brauell found in the blood of animals which died of anthrax peculiar rod-shaped bodies, which Brauell also demonstrated in the blood of living animals, attributing a diagnostic value to his findings. After Delafond (1860) had already recognized the vegetable nature of these bodies and named them bacteria, Davaine (1865) established their etio- logical importance, as in his experiments blood containing these bodies produced the disease even in high dilutions, while inoculations with blood without such rods gave negative results. The fungous nature of anthrax bacilli was definitely established by Cohn. However, they were first artificially cultivated by R. Koch (1876) and by Pasteur (1877), whose fundamental investigations opened a new path for the theory of the infectious diseases in general through the study of the biological characteristics of the anthrax virus, as well as the etiology of the disease. At the same time Pasteur’s classical experiments in attenuation and protective inoculation established the foundation for the modern theory of immunity, the development of which has already. WAGHt gale al i!
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