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Excerpt from Swine Plague: With Especial Reference to the Porcine Pests of the World, an Etiological, Patho-Anatomical, Prophylactic, and Critical Contribution to the General Pathology and State Medicine The swine plague is a specific infectious disease, peculiar to swine only, which finds its idiopathic origin in a specific micro-organism belonging to the ovoid-belted group of germs. This organism finds its source of primary and original development in the earth and earthy or refuse material, and then the swine become infected, and again infect the same kind of materials through their excreter, or it is done through the cadavers of dead swine. The primary disease induced in swine is a blood poison by means of the secretion of specific germs; hence swine plague is a septicaemia, and, because the germ finds its primary origin outside of the porcine organism, it is an extra-organismal-septicaemia. It is not contagious. The secondary lesions are pneumonia and those of the large intestine, though broncho-pneumonia and a certain class of intestinal lesions may occur at about the same time as the strictly septicaemic when the infecting organisms gain entrance to the infected by means of either of these tracts. History and Geographical Distribution. It seems that we know less of the history and geographical distribution of the swine plagues of the world than of almost any other contagious or infectious disease of animal life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.