MALIGNANT AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 987 



this disease. In some respects, indeed, the ignorant may easily confound 

 them. Hence we give the symptomatic distinction of each, side by side, 

 as stated by Dr. Klein : 



CONTAGIOUS PNEUMO-ENTERITIR. TRUE CHARBON. — Period of in- 



—Period of incubation from two cubation, or latency, from a few 



to five days and more, hours to three days. 



Rarely and with difficulty trans- Easily transmissible to other 



mitted to other species. species of animals. 



Spleen rarely enlarged or other- Spleen always enlarged, and 



wise changed. often broken down. 



Blood after death of ordinary Blood after death dark and fluid, 

 appearance. 



No bacillus anlhracis in the Bacillus anthrads in the blood, 

 blood, but numberless bacilly m the 

 serum of the thorax and abdomen. 



Lungs and bowels always both 



mflamed. Cough always present. Lungs and bowels frequently not 



The red or purple color diffused implicated. Cough may be present, 



over the surface, and of an ery. The discoloration local, and of 



sipelatous appearance. a true carbuncular appearance. 



There are two forms of pneumo-enteritis, one the erysipelatous form, 

 the other with malignant sore throat. 



The Erysipelatous Form. — The animal is dull; will not eat; is un- 

 \\illing to move ; tries to vomit ; there is cough ; difficulty in urination -, 

 the bowels are constipated ; the dung hard and black. Then dark red or 

 l^urple blotches passing into bluish -black will appear about the ears, 

 throat, neck, breast and between the fore-legs. There may be a dis- 

 charge of dark or purple fluid from the nose ; the breathing becomes 

 labored, even to panting ; there is pai-alysis of the hind Limbs ; if the 

 animal is forced up, his head will drop to the ground, and he walks with 

 a reeling gait behind, Fcetid diarrhoea sets in, and the animal dies in 

 from one to three days. 



With Malignant Sore Throat. — The symptoms in the commence- 

 ment are the same as in the erysipelatous form, Avith a red and purple 

 line about the throat ; there are attempts to vomit ; difficulty in swallow- 

 ing ; and the sensation of choking in breathmg is so intense that the 

 animal will sic on his haunches, gasping for breath with livid, protruded 

 and swollen tongue. The symptoms so increase, sometimes, that the 

 swelling of the larynx will kill, by choking, in an hour. 



What to do. — Foment the swoileh parts with hot water, saturated with 

 sulphate of iron (copperas). If there are signs of gangrene, saturate the 



