ANTHEAX IN THE PIG. 313 



congested. The blood is dark, seems fluid, and coagulates 

 very slowly and imperfectly. 



Prevention and Treatment of Anthrax in the Pig. Whole- 

 some vegetable diet, a sparing allowance of only well-cooked 

 animal food, and cleanliness are the best preventives for 

 anthrax in the pig. When the disease breaks out, keep the 

 animals on low diet; give them an emetic such as white 

 hellebore, and follow this up by purgatives and clysters. 

 Exercise, fresh air, and sluicing the animals over with cold 

 water, are measures to be recommended. 



PAETUEIENT APOPLEXY IN Cows DEOPPING AFTEE 

 CALVING FIEVEE VITLAIEE. 



When breeding animals are treated judiciously, they are not 

 liable to accidents at the period of parturition. A sufficient 

 diet and plenty of exercise are admirable preparations for cows 

 that have to calve, or ewes approaching the lambing season, 

 but too much rich food and a state of perfect quiet are too 

 favourable for the development of a fatal plethora. 



Amongst the many animals slaughtered for human food, 

 there are not a few that succumb in the act or after parturi- 

 tion, and it is therefore important that I should refer to the 

 subject at some length. Indeed, as with puerperal fever, it is 

 certain, that notwithstanding the sporadic nature of parturient 

 apoplexy in cattle, it is marked by the development of a 

 poison capable of inducing a similar disease in other animals, 

 of affecting the human frame, and hence rendering the flesh 

 of animals affected by it unfit for human food. Of late years 

 the disease has become much more prevalent than it was 

 formerly; and there are many cow-feeders who once would 

 have refused to buy a cow after having calved, now prefer 

 them passed over this period, which they know to be attended 

 with many dangers. The increased prevalence of the disease 



