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the United States and receives the highest approval of our lead- 

 ing veterinarians. In a locality where charbon has appeared all 

 stock should at once be inoculated with Pasteur's anthrax vac- 

 cine. By vaccinating all unaffected animals and immediately 

 burning all dead bodies, a check can very quickly be made in 

 the spread of this dread disease. 



TEXAS, OE SPLENETIC FEYEL'. 



This is a specific fever communicated by cattle which have 

 been moved northward from the infected district, or which is 

 contracted by cattle taken into the infected districts from other 

 parts of the world. It is characterized by a high fever, greatly 

 enlarged spleen, destruction of the red blood corpuscles, escape 

 of the coloring matter of the blood through the kidneys, giving 

 the unrine a deep color; by a yellowness of the mucus membranes 

 and fat; by a rapid loss of strength, and by fatal results in a 

 large majority of cases. This disease has various names in dif- 

 ferent parts of the country, as Spanish fever, acclimation fever, 

 red water, bloody murrian, etc. 



As early as 1814 the people of Virginia prohibited cattle from 

 a certain district in South Carolina from passing through their 

 State, on account of these cattle so certainly diseasing all others 

 with which they mix in their progress to the north; while these 

 cattle were in perfect health, they gave to all others, whether 

 from Europe or the Northern States, a disease that generally 

 proved fatal. Similar observations have been made in regard to 

 nearly all of the Southern States, and it is now known that the 

 infection is not peculiar to Texas or even the Gulf coast, but that 

 it extends far inward and northward almost to the southern 

 limit of Maryland. On account of the frequent and severe losses 

 following the driving of cattle from the infected districts in 

 Texas into and across the Western States and territories, the 

 name of Texas fever became attached to this disease. 



