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opening or skinning. It should be buried at least six feet deep, the 

 carcase being covered with quicklime, in which a quart of crude 

 carbolic acid ought to be mixed. Everything with which the animal 

 has come in actual contact should be washed with a 5 per cent, solution 

 of carbolic acid, as this is said to kill all bacilli. In making apost-moitetn 

 examination of a carcase suspected of anthrax, I have the grave dug 

 first, and then the body is carried on a sled to the side of the hole, and 

 pushed in, with the left side uppermost, I then get into the hole on to 

 the body, and cut into the abdomen over the region of the spleen. 

 The carcase is then covered over with lime and carbolic acid, and my 

 hands, feet, and instruments are washed in disinfectants, at the side of 

 the grave. The post mortem shows the spleen extensively enlarged, 

 the blood of a dark tarry colour and in a semi-fluid condition, while 

 the thoracic and abdominal cavities, bladder, and intestines contain 

 a quantity of mud-coloured water. The Treatment of splenic 

 apoplexy is not very satisfactory — 2 to 4 ounce dozes of hyposulphite 

 of soda, with aromatic stimulants, may be given every four or six 

 houis. Regarding preventives, I have every confidence that if the 

 lands are well dressed with salt, and the animals given a tablespoonful 

 of salt daily in their food, which should be properly prepared, this 

 disease will be entirely prevented. 



329. Red Water, although I consider this to be a purely dietetic 

 complaint at the outset, it will be dealt with under " Blood Diseases " 

 (see Circulation, Lecture VIII.). 



330. Braxy. — Striking of Blood is known under two separate condi- 

 tions, viz. : Dry and wet braxy, and the latter is the more prevalent, and 

 runs its course very rapidly. In some seasons the disease is very rife 

 amongst sheep, when first folded on turnips : the sudden change of 

 food, and some peculiarity in the weather, having a powerful influence 

 in producing it. When sheep are first put on roots, they should have 

 a small quantity of hay, well watered with salt and water, or a little 

 salt given daily with some crushed oats or maize and bran. Were 

 these measures generally resorted to, there would be little, if any, 

 fear of braxy appearing. When braxy occurs amongst lambs on 



