Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India (Veterinary Series) Bovine Lymphangitis May 1921

Omitting the accounts published during the first half of the nineteenth century, the earliest detailed study of the disease is that by Nocard, who examined specimens from Guadeloupe, and published an article on the subject in the Annales de l'In,stitut Pasteur in 1888. [...] Special note is made of the fact that there was a great tendency to over- growth of the hoofs owing to the peculiar gait during the later stages of the disease. [...] In the majority of cases the infection followed a wound of the neck or hump, but in one instance, as in the case of most of the animals referred to by Nocard, the infection appeared to have gained access through a wound in the foot. [...] The morphology of the cultivated parasite generally resembled that of the organism as found in the lesions. [...] On the left side of the abdomen all the intestines were cemented together with thick yellow exudate, and scattered over the surface of the visceral peritoneum in other parts were discrete collections of pus varying in size from a pea to a small nut.