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TEXAS OR SOUTHERN CATTLE FEVER.
too small to resemble anything in particular and the cultivation of which
is attended with many failures. Such forms are familiar to most work-
ing bacteriologists. It is nevertheless impossible to come to any posi-
tive conclusion that the Roumanian and the American diseases are the
same until the investigations concerning the former are carried beyond
the preliminary stage in which Babes has left them.
In the Caucasus* there prevails a disease during the hot season which
is called " Tschichir," a name also applied to a kind of red wine, because
the urine of affected cattle is red in color. The disease is said to kill
thousands of the best cows and oxen annually, and peasants lose the
major part of their stock in a few days without being able to do any-
thing to check the disease. The details concerning the disease are very
meager. " At first the animal is dull, with drooping head and ears.
It champs its teeth, moans, and discharges from its mouth a viscid, foul-
smelling mucus. The bowels may be loose or costive and the urine is
bright red." From observations of the disease the following conclu-
sions are drawn:
The " Tschichir " has no infectious properties. The disease attacks
mainly working oxen, more rarely milch cows, and never young animals.
It is more severe and acute in spring than in fall. It does not last
more than three weeks in any one locality. In the first week it begins
to show itself, in the second it is at its height, and in the third it dis-
appears completely. The flesh of animals which have died of this dis-
ease is consumed without any ill effects by the nomadic tribes of the
Caucasus.
* T. Praktische Bemerkungen iiber die im Kaukasus Tschichir (Heematuria) gen-
annte Krankheit des Hornviehs. Med. Ztg. Russlands, St. Petersburg, 1853, x, 209.144
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Smith, Theobold & Kilborne, Fred Lucius. Investigations into the Nature, Causation, and Prevention of Texas or Southern Cattle Fever, book, 1893; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143538/m1/144/?q=%221863%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.