Contagious Diseases of Domesticated Animals: Continuation of Investigation by Department of Agriculture, Volume 1 |
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Page 154 - District to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe regulations for...
Page 154 - The commissioner or an assistant commissioner, shall order any premises, farm or farms where such disease exists, or recently existed, to be put in quarantine, so that no domestic animal be removed from or brought to the premises or places quarantined, and shall...
Page 154 - ... which they may receive from the Governor in the premises ; to employ such and so many medical and veterinary practitioners and such other persons as he may from time to time deem necessary to assist him in...
Page 154 - He may alter or modify, from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the terms of all notices, orders and regulations issued or made by him, and may at any time cancel or withdraw the same.
Page 154 - ... infectious or contagious disease, and for the proper disposition of their hides and carcasses, and of all objects which might convey infection or contagion : Provided, That no animal shall be destroyed unless first examined by a medical or veterinary practitioner in the employ of the governor...
Page 155 - ... their condition and circumstances, and to deliver to their owner or owners, when requested, a duplicate of such certificate. Whenever any owner of such cattle, or his agent or servant, has willfully or knowingly withheld, or allowed to be withheld, notice of the existence of said disease upon his premises, or among his cattle, jroii will not make such certificate.
Page 102 - ... inflamed and sometimes in a state of suppuration, and intestines filled with hard balls. The manner of introduction of this disease, its highly contagious character, the bloody urine and disease of kidneys, are sufficient characters on which to make a diagnosis. That there have been many occasions on which this disease was introduced in a similar manner in Maryland, Virginia, the mountain region of North Carolina and Tennessee, is very certain, but the accounts of these are so meager that I do...
Page 155 - ... for a period of three months after the removal of the diseased animal and the subsequent disinfection of said premises. You are further authorized and empowered to incur such expenses in carrying out the provisions of the foregoing orders as may, in your judgment, appear necessary, and see to it that all bills for such expenses be transmitted to this department only through yourself, after you have approved the same in writing. The agent appointed by the governor at...
Page 207 - ... and repeatedly washed, and the residuum left after filtration was introduced under the skin of healthy dogs. The same thing was done with the firm microscopical particles obtained by washing large quantities of the surface soil. The animals experimented upon all had the fever with the regular typical course, showing free intervals, lasting various lengths of time up to sixty hours, and an increase in the temperature of the blood during the shivering fits up to nearly 42°, the normal temperature...
Page 207 - ... discovered the cause of the disease in question. The discovery may be regarded as another of the series of which those in connection with inflammation of the spleen and diphtheritis were earlier examples. Against the...