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sodium, and cocaine, and mnst carefully be prescribed in 

 suitable doses if any one of them be given. 



(1) Nitrite of amy], one half to one fluid drachm to be 



injected hypodermically. 



(2) Drench. 



Chloric ether, one fluid ounce. 



Tincture of belladonna, two fluid drachms. 



Water, a suflicient quantity to make one pint. 



Anthrax, or Splenic Fever, or Charbon, or Malignant 

 Pustule. 



This disease is caused by the presence and growth of 

 bacilli iu the blood, viscera, and secretions. These bacilli 

 are short, motionless rods, straight or a little curved, and 

 about j^YT ^^^^ ^" length. They become longer and 

 divide, or else produce spores, which become free and grow 

 into rods, and they can resist great extremes of tempera- 

 ture. Anthrax is capable of being propagated by direct 

 inoculation — e.g., the bites or stings of insects, or by the 

 bites of dogs which have been feeding on diseased carcases. 

 The malady may be caught by grazing on moist, badly- 

 drained land, whereon the micro-organism is growing. By 

 handling the carcases of infected animals, slaughterers, 

 butchers, or wool-sorters may get the disease, either by 

 inoculation of an abraded surface, or by inhaling dust or 

 particles of wool ; and it may also be transmitted to those 

 who consume the flesh of diseased animals. So deadly is 

 this disease, both in animals and human beings, to whom it 

 is readily transmissible, that treatment of animals known 

 to be afl'ected is out of the question. Hence, the only 

 course to be adopted is slaughter and deep burial, with 

 thorough antiseptic precautions, and the litter and manure 



