SYMPTOMS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN SHEEP AND GOATS.

The tubercles have been usually found post mortem in these animals or as

the result of experimental inoculation, and symptoms have not been well

recorded. They follow the same order as in the ox, weak husky cough,

wheezing and other râles in the lungs, disorders of the digestive

organs, swollen lymph nodes and glands, and caseated products in those

that were of some standing. I have found these latter especially, in the

region of the throat in high bred rams kept in confined buildings or

yards and highly fed to prepare for _letting_ or sale. These lose in

vigor and activity and _scrofulous_ swellings form on the neck, head or

elsewhere and become rapidly caseated. In German abattoirs tuberculous

sheep proved 0.1 to 0.15 per cent. In Saxon goats the percentage was

0.6.

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