286 ANTHKAX, OK CAKBUNCULAR FEVEE. 



bimcular erysipelas, and carbuncular angina of the pig, are 

 the principal erysipelatous forms. 



Ill Forms of Anthrax with the development of boils and 

 carbuncles. This includes the malignant carbuncles occurring 

 in all parts of the body of animals and human beings. The 

 pestis anticardia of Sauvages, so destructive amongst horses ; 

 glossanthrax in cattle and sheep; stomatanthrax hordeolum 

 of the pig ; and another singular form in the same animal, 

 termed Kopfanthrax and Kropf brandbeule by the Germans, 

 soie or pique 7 by the French, and setola by the Italians. 

 I shall limit my remarks to 



Splenic apoplexy in cattle and sheep. 



Braxy in sheep. 



Black-leg or quarter-ill in cattle and sheep. 



Glossanthrax in cattle and sheep. 



Anthrax in the pig apoplexy or hog cholera. 

 Having made some observations on these diseases, I shall 

 add some remarks on other diseases incidental to plethora, 

 and especially on 



Parturient fever in cows. 



Heaving pains in ewes. 



Navel-ill; and 



Hepatic disease in lambs. 



SPLENIC APOPLEXY. BLOOD STRIKING. 

 Congestion and extravasation of the spleen occurring sud- 

 denly in plethoric animals, is a disease dependent on blood 

 changes, which occur principally amongst ruminants. From 

 the tendency to engorgement of the spleen in anthrax, it was 

 formerly believed, especially in Germany, that anthrax fever 

 was a gangrene of the spleen, hence the term 'Milzbrand,' 

 as applied to this disease. The French have recognised that 

 the malady primarily affects the blood, and have termed it 



