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laboured and quick in connexion with exudations into the 

 chest, or violent colics may supervene from effusions in the 

 abdomen. With internal effusions death ensues in forty-eight 

 hours, with external only, the effects may last for weeks or 

 months before ending in recovery or death. In the latter case 

 the swellings may suddenly disappear to reappear elsewhere, 

 they may subside permanently in connexion with free action of 

 the bowels or kidneys, or they may slough, leaving extensive 

 and sluggish sores and scars. 



(B) In the Ox. — (i) Black Tongite. Also in the Horse. 

 This is manifested by the eruption of blisters, red, purple, or 

 black, on the tongue, palate, and cheeks, increasing individually 

 often to the size of a hen's egg, bursting, discharging an 

 ichorous irritating fluid, and forming unhealthy sores with 

 more or less tumefaction. There is a bloody discharge from 

 the mouth, active fever sets in, and death ensues in twenty-four 

 to forty-eight hours. 



(2) Black- Quarter, — Bloody Murrain. — This is malignant 

 anthrax, with extensive engorgement of a shoulder, quarterj 

 neck, breast, or side. It is most frequent in young and rapidly 

 thriving stock, attacking first the finest of the herd or thpse 

 thriving most rapidly, and runs its course so quickly that its 

 victims are usually found dead in the field as the first indication 

 of anything amiss. If seen during life there are the general 

 symptoms of plethora, fever, with halting on one limb, stiffness, 

 and excessive tenderness of some parts of the skin, to be 

 promptly followed by swelling of such parts, with yellow or 

 bloody oozing from the surface, and crackling when pressed 

 These swellings become firm, tense, insensible, and even cold, 

 and if the subject survives, may finally slough open and leave 

 large, unsightly, and inactive sores. Recoveries are the excep- 

 tion and too often slow and tedious. 



(C) In Sheep. — Carbuncular Erysipelas. — This strongly 

 resembles black-quarter of cattle. Like that it attacks th? 



