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hand, an ear of the dead animal can be inclosed in a bottle or frui 

 jar and sent to the nearest laboratory where diagnosis can be made 

 The ear contains so little readily decomposable tissue that it keep: 

 fairly well, drying rather than rotting. It contains enough blood t( 

 enable a bacteriologist to make a successful examination. 



Sanitation. As every animal affected with anthrax is a menace tc 

 the community in which it lives to the men who handle it as wel 

 as the animals who browse beside it such animals should be killec 

 as soon as the diagnosis is made, and, together with the hair and skin 

 be burned, or if this be impracticable, Frankel recommends that the} 

 be buried to a depth of at least i J^-2 meters, so that the sporulatior 

 of the bacilli is made impossible. The dejecta should also be care 

 fully disinfected with 5 per cent, carbolic acid solution. As th< 

 pastures and barnyards are certainly infected wherever an anima 

 has been the victim of anthrax, all other susceptible animals upor 

 the farm, and all such upon neighboring farms, should at once b< 

 vaccinated. 



Cases of human anthrax must be treated by isolation, carefu 

 dressing of the lesions when external, the dressings being burnec 

 as soon as removed. The expectoration, urine and feces should b< 

 disinfected with care. The patient should be defended from flies 

 and the nurse and others who come into contact with the patiem 

 should be warned of the dangerous character of the infection. 



BACILLI RESEMBLING THE ANTHRAX BACILLUS 



Bacilli presenting the morphologic and cultural characteristics 

 of the anthrax bacillus, but devoid of any disease-producing power 

 are occasionally observed. Of these, Bacillus anthracoides of Hupp* 

 and Wood,* Bacillus anthracis similis of McFarland,f and Bacillus 

 pseudoanthracisj have been given special names. What relation- 

 ship they bear to the anthrax bacillus is uncertain. They may be 

 entirely different organisms, or they may be individuals whose viru- 

 lence has been lost through unfavorable environment. 



* "Berliner klin. Wochenschrift," 1889. 16. 

 ' "Centralbl. f. Bakt.," vol. xxiv, No. 26, p. 556. 

 I "Hygienische Rundschau," 1894, No. 8. 



