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THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OP THE OX. 



The beauty of this plan of Klein's lies in its simplicity. The 

 chief requisite is a guinea-pig just dead of virulent anthrax, the 

 farther procedures, viz. the preparation of the proper solution 

 of the salt of mercury, the mixing of this with the blood of the 

 guinea-pig, and the injection of this mixture by means of a? 

 hypodermic syringe, not demanding such a very high degree of 

 skill as Pasteur's method does. 



If anthrax has existed in a cattle-shed, it must be well swept 



Fig. 31. 

 This picture represents an injection-syringe used for hypodermic injection. 



out, and all litter, dung, or other things, such as implements- 

 and so on, which have been in contact with, or used about, the 

 animal or animals, must then be well disinfected or burnt. The 

 walls should be whitewashed with limewash containing a pint 

 of crude carbolic acid to each bucketful, the floors are to be 

 thoroughly washed, and sulphur burnt in the place, so as to fiU 

 it with the fumes. The carcases are to be covered over with 



