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uliich only six or eight hands were employed, twenty persons 

 died in the course of ten years from malignant pustule. The 

 disease may be communicated by eating the flesh of animals 

 killed while affected with it, as also by using the milk and butter 

 of affected cows. 



ANTHRAX IN THE PIG. 



The observations of Klein having proved that the very fatal 

 disease amongst pigs known as anthracoid erysipelas, the blue 

 sickness, pig typhoid, &c., differs in many particulars from 

 anthrax ; the varieties witnessed in the pig are reduced to 

 anthrax fever, gloss-anthrax, and anthrax with tumour. Anthrax 

 fever is as rapidly fatal in the pig as in other animals, destroying 

 life in a very short time, with but slight manifestation of sick- 

 nes?, killing by shock. In milder cases, however, there is loss 

 of appetite, sudden prostration, sullen appearance, hanging ears, 

 painful and haggard expression, vomition of a coffee-coloured 

 fluid, continual convulsions, paralysis of the extremities, rapid 

 alternations in the heat of the body, highly injected mucous 

 membranes, and generally terminating in death. 



Gloss-Anthrax — Malignant sore thruat — Antliracoicl angina — 

 This form of anthrax is most commonly seen in the pig when 

 it has fed on the flesh of other animals which have died of the 

 malady. It is rapidly fatal, the throat swelling enormously ; 

 the pharynx, larynx, tongue, &c. becoming enormously swollen 

 and gangrenous ; an exhaustive diarrhoea, with great tenesmus 

 and discharge of blood, often appearing prior to death. 



I have known of several instances in which pigs have died in 

 great numbers after having eaten of the flesh and offal of cattle 

 which had died of quarter-ill and splenic apoplexy ; and Mr. 

 Borthwick, V.S., Kirkliston, has told me an instance which 

 occurred in 1872, in which twenty-five pigs died in two days 

 after having eaten the flesh of a bullock which had died of 

 splenic apoplexy. 



ANTHRAX IN POULTRY. 



Charbonous fever is announced in poultry by the following 

 symptoms : — No appetite ; feathers ruffled ; walk difficult and 

 staggering ; foetid diarrhoea ; great prostration ; dragging of the 

 wings; turgescence or blackness of the conjunctivae; excessive 



