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MODERN knowledge of trypanosome disease and others of a similar nature can be usefully applied to some of the problems which are in my particular line of research, viz. to diseases of our domesticated animals. I shall mention but two, known probably to you all, and which are of great economical importance—horse-sickness in equines, and blue-tongue in sheep. Long before any expert came in contact with him, the observant farmer quite rightly classed these two diseases in one group. He even went so far as to say they were identical; but here is an opinion which we are not able to support. There are, nevertheless, more similarities than differences in the two; they resemble each other in nature of the cause, both being due to micro-organisms of infinitesimal minuteness, so small that none of our modern microscopes can detect them.
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Stock Diseases and their Suppression in South Africa 1 . Nature 90, 475–478 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090475b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090475b0