Laidlaw, in the epizootic days of 1872, when horses were dying by the thousands all over the United States and Canada.
It was in 1872 when rosin-weed was enjoying its brief publicity and when the epidemic ofepizootic among the horses created a public interest in veterinary medicines, that my father, Dr.
Rats and other rodents are regularly caught in the danger zone and examined for evidence of infection, for the sequence of the epizootic and of the human disease is now understood.
Close contact of plague-infected with healthy animals, if fleas are excluded, does not give rise to an epizootic among the latter.
More than once I have seen such epizootic diarrhea start on the headwaters of a creek and, traveling along that stream, follow the watershed and attack the herds supplied with water from the contaminated channel.
The contagious pleuropneumonia of cattle is a specific, epizootic disease which affects bovine animals, and from which other species are exempt.
Unlike blackleg, this disease never appears as an epizootic but in isolated cases.
Certain appearances which are characteristic of oneepizootic may be absent in another.
Since then it has occurred in epizooticand enzootic forms in many sections of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
It was described by Bollinger in 1878, and named Wild und Rinderseuche, from its having affected deer, wild boars, cattle, and horses in an epizootic which swept over Germany at that time.
This disease has previously been known in this country as epizootic lymphangitis, or pseudo-farcy.
Owing to the fact that this affection does not spread as an epizootic and that its causal factor is a fungus, the name sporotrichosis has been suggested.
We find the first advent of this disease to the British Islands in an epizootic among the horses of London and the southern counties of England in 1732, which is described by Gibson.
Later, in 1648, an epizootic of this disease visited Germany and spread to other parts of Europe.
These maladies ravage large tracts of country, frequently causing great mortality amongst the various animals inhabiting the localities visited by them; different animals being assailed by different forms of epizootic disease.
Epizootic diseases are met with in most European countries.
For a long time, however, practical husbandmen have recognized an epizootic or contagious kind of abortion, a definite transmissible disease in which the loss of the fetus is the most prominent characteristic.
Report of the Departmental Committee to inquire intoEpizootic Abortion.
Some of these methods, such as that of artificial immunization, are being tested experimentally by the Departmental Committee appointed by the British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to inquire into Epizootic Abortion.
Besides, a persistent research among the veterinary memorials and reports might possibly enable us to discover some instances in which the real typhoid fever in the ox had been traced, apart from the epizootic conditions.
The epizootic typhus, if not so destructive, was at least as frequent in the early part of the nineteenth century, as it had been during the eighteenth.
No branch of human knowledge has been more rudely tested during the present epizootic than medical science.
Suggestions on the Improvements to be effected in the Study of Medical Science, in order that we may be in a Condition to confront Diseases generally, but Epizootic and Epidemic Diseases in particular.
But, of late years, a still more serious epizootic has appeared among the silkworms; and I may mention a few facts which will give you some conception of the gravity of the injury which it has inflicted on France alone.
Plague is an acute infectious epizootic disease, caused solely by Bacillus pestis, a bacterial organism.
The proposal to destroy rats by wholesale, by spreading epizooticdiseases among them, through feeding them bacterial virus, has received much attention in the last ten years.
When a cow is attacked with this epizootic disease, the first noticeable symptoms are generally tenderness and flabbiness of the udder, and a frothy condition of the milk.
