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man through the medium of a wound from 

 any of the aforementioned animals. 



In the last named it is spoken of as 

 ' woolsorters' disease,' because it is fre- 

 quently contracted through handling hides, 

 etc. 



The writer quite recently knew of a case 

 where the farm grieve got inoculated 

 through handling a carcase, the blood hav- 

 ing got into a slight scratch on the fingers. 

 Owing to the immediate application of 

 zotal disinfectant, the anthrax germs seem to 

 have been spent at the seat of infection. A 

 typical ulcer formed but the man recovered. 

 It is nearly always fatal in animals. 



