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ANTHRAX. 



Synonyms. Splenic fever ; splenic apoplexy ; wool 

 sorters' disease ; malignant pustule ; anthracemia ; mycosis 

 intestinalis ; charbon ; Milzbrand. 



§ 116. Characterization. Anthrax is an infectious 

 disease occurring sporadically and in epizootics in herbivora 

 and omnivora and communicable to nearly all warm-blooded 

 animals, and to man. It is characterized by the presence in 

 the diseased tissues or liquids of Bacterium anthracis, by an 

 enlarged spleen, blood extravasations and by local gangrene. 

 It usually occurs in the acute form. 



§ 117. History. Anthrax is among the oldest of the 

 known infectious diseases of animals. Descriptions of epi- 

 demics and epizootics of this disea.se are given by Homer, 

 Plutarch, Livy and other writers before the Christian Era. 

 The Arab phj'sicians designated it as "Persian Fire." Exten- 

 sive outbreaks are mentioned in the literature of the fifteenth, 

 sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 



