210 GLOSS ANTHBAX, BLAIN, BLACK TONGUE. 



G-loss Anthrax, Blain, Black 

 Tongue. 



This is an epidemic, and sometimes fearfully fatal 

 disease, which has prevailed under different modifi- 

 cations at various seasons, in different sections of the 

 country. It appears to have its origin in some 

 peculiar atmospheric conditions, favored doubtless 

 by exposure or impoverished keeping, and is then 

 propagated from diseased to healthy animals. It is 

 most common in spring and fall. 



SYMPTOMS. The animal appears low-spirited dull 

 and does not eat or chew the cud ; a clear fluid 

 without smell, constantly flows from the mouth ; 

 the head and neck constantly swell, until they are 

 much increased in size ; the breathing becomes 

 difficult and obstructed, in some cases so much so 

 that the animal cannot breathe, and death results 

 early from suffocation ; the fluid from the mouth be- 

 comes like matter, or is mixed with blood, and of 

 very disagreeable odor ; the tongue becomes swol- 

 len, and its sides covered with large, red blisters, 

 which rapidly increase in size, and at last burst, 

 discharging their contents, and leaving deep sores, 

 which are apt to mortify. Other blisters successive- 

 ly arise, and run the same course. Symptoms of 

 low fever come on, the whole of the tongue becomes 

 inflamed and swelled ; at last a ponion of it morti- 

 fies, turns black, and the animal dies, sometimes 

 within a few hours from the beginning of the dis- 

 ease. 



