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results from the inoculation of an abrasion or cut; thus it frequently 

 shows on the arms and the backs of those unloading hides. It first 

 appears as a pimple, the center of which becomes vesicular, then 

 necrotic. 



FIG. 1 6. Anthrax bacilli. Cover-glass has been pressed on a colony and then fixed 

 and stained. (Kolle and Wasscrmann.) 



FIG. 17. Anthrax bacilli growing in a chain and exhibiting spores. 

 (Kolle and Wasserman.) 



A ring of vesicles surrounds this central eschar and a zone of congestion, the 

 vesicles. The lymphatics soon become inflamed as well as neighboring glands. 

 If the^mstule is not excised and death occurs, there is not much enlargement of the 

 spleen and the bacteria are not abundant in the kidneys, etc., as with animals. 

 Man seems to die from a toxaemia rather than a septicaemia. 



In woolsorter's disease there is great swelling and oedema of the bronchial and 

 mediastinal glands. The lungs show oedema, which about the bronchi is hemorrhagic. 



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