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and they are not capable of movement. It is very important to 

 know that if an animal which has died of anthrax be not opened, 

 its whole body and its excretions being protected from the air 

 by being buried or otherwise carefully disposed of, the bacilli 

 become quite innocuous, and die in about a week or a little 

 more. Hence it is highly necessary that the bodies of animals 



Fig. 30. 



The above picture represents the microscopical appearance of a small portion 

 of a section cut through the kidney of a rabbit which died from the results of 

 anthrax. The capillaries of the cortex are naturally injected with the bacilli 

 anthracis. 



1. A glomerulus. 2. Capillaries surrounding the convoluted uriniferous 

 tubules, which are not here shown. Magnifying power 450 (Spiller's purple). 

 —Klein. 



which have died of this disease should not be opened, unless it 

 should be supposed necessary. Moreover, too much care cannot 

 be taken by all who have to handle the carcases, since the 

 disease can very easily be communicated to human beings. 

 Hence Pasteur's belief, that earthworms are instrumental in 

 bringing up to the surface of the land the bacilli of anthrax 



