280 ANTHRAX, OR CARBUNCULAR FEVER. 



circles, and the number of cases in each circle was also far 

 greater in the latter year. 



The provinces that suffer most in Prussia are Saxony and 

 Silesia, and especially the Kegierungs Bezirken Merseburg, 

 Magdeburg, Breslau, Oppeln, and Posen. It is rare in the 

 Rhine provinces, in Brandenburg, and Westphalia, and it 

 occurs still more rarely, or scarcely ever, in the Regierungs 

 Bezirken Danzig, Marienwerder, Stralsund, and Cb'slin. 



Indubitable evidence has been afforded by many conti- 

 nental observers that carbuncular affections spread by con- 

 tagion. 



I shall notice two cases. Veterinary surgeon Kriiger 

 reported an outbreak in the circle of Naugardt, in 1854. 

 It occurred amongst a flock of sheep. The bodies of the 

 dead animals were skinned and left in the stable. The 

 horses employed to drag the straw into and out of the stable 

 used for the sheep, having to remain for some time in the 

 stable, at the loading or unloading, became affected with 

 anthrax, and died. 



The second case is a very singular one. It is reported by 

 Dr Rabe of Neumark, Konigsberg. A dealer in pigs had to 

 leave three sick ones behind out of a drove; they died, and 

 their carcases were in part buried, and in part eaten by dogs. 

 One dog, having eaten some of the flesh, bit two cows and a 

 healthy pig. Both cows fell lame in the hind limb which 

 the dog had bitten ; a very decided carbuncle formed at the 

 seat of the bites, and both animals died the same day. The 

 pig was also seized with anthrax and died. A second dog 

 bit a bull and a pig, and both these animals took anthrax 

 and died. The dogs, however, remained in perfect health. 

 These were the only cases of anthrax which occurred in the 

 district. 



Since I first described the outbreaks of splenic apoplexy in 



