Abstract
IN RECENT years the cause of diarrhea in newborn and young animals has been considered, for the most part, to be of bacterial origin. It was thought that the part played by bacteria might be secondary to the physiological change produced in the body of the young animal by a sudden increase or decrease in the surrounding temperature. The experiments reported in this paper were carried out to ascertain the effect of exposing young chickens to sudden changes in temperature.It is a well known fact that newborn and young animals require warmth, as well as food, in order that they may develop normally. Poultrymen and breeders of laboratory animals have frequently found that a chill will produce diarrhea, and may even cause death in very young birds and animals. It would appear that their thermoregulatory apparatus is unstable for the first few weeks of life, for during this period .
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