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of, at least, 400 diameters. The thin rods will appear 

 like short pieces of fine thread crossing each other in 

 every direction, and enclosing the blood corpuscles. 

 This examination may. be conducted in the shed or 

 pasture, but in the laboratory staining processes are 

 employed. 



PROCEDURE. 



7. The healthy animals on the pasture or other 

 place where the outbreak occurred should be moved 

 under proper restrictions to a convenient place for 

 isolation, and should be examined by a veterinary 

 surgeon every day for a week. If a rise of temperature 

 is discovered in any of the isolated animals they should, 

 as far as practicable, be removed from the rest of the 

 herd until they have recovered. 



8. Slaughter, by a Local Authority, of healthy 

 animals in contact is only justifiable under special 

 circumstances, i.e., where the animals are fat and fit 

 for the butcher, or where the animals are few in 

 number and of little value, or in outbreaks where the 

 disease is spreading rapidly and there are no means ot 

 proper isolation. 



9. Antiseptics, such as hyposulphite of soda, have 

 been administered to the in-contact animals with 

 apparent advantage. Medical treatment of animals 

 should, however, only be carried out under the advice 

 and direction of a veterinary surgeon, and with regard 

 to this and other preventive measures it may be said 

 that it is impossible to determine the degree of efficacy 

 which they possess, owing to the fact that anthrax 

 frequently ceases after the loss of a single animal. 



10. Inoculation, on the system recommended by 

 M. Pasteur, could not be adopted except by an expert 

 accustomed to operate, but the results of the operation 



