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" In another form of anthrax without external tumours^ 

 the most prominent sign, in. addition to the general distur- 

 bance, is the passage from the bowels of quantities of dark- 

 coloured blood ; and the disease is then denominated enteric 

 or abdominal charbon, the post-mortem characteristics being 

 congestion of the intestinal mucous membrane, more parti- 

 cularly of the small intestines^ which are covered with pete- 

 chial spots, with incipient ulceration in their centres, extra- 

 vasation of dark-coloured blood into the canal/' 



After studying the subject of Anthrax at Pasteur's Labora- 

 tory in Paris, and observing the external symptoms of animals 

 affected with what is called in this country rinderpest, go- 

 basanta, guti, or Mdtd } the author of this Handbook was so 

 convinced that the commonest cattle-plague of India was 

 anthrax, that he proceeded with the post-mortem examina- 

 tion of the organs of affected animals and the microscopic 

 study of the blood, and he was confirmed in the belief that 

 rinderpest was anthrax pure or simple, all the four 

 forms occurring indifferently in a herd of affected animals, 

 viz., (i) the systemic or febrile form often ending in symptoms 

 which are mistaken for those of rabies ; (2) the dysenteric 

 or abdominal form which is the commonest form ; (3) the 

 form with external lesions, cases of this generally recover- 

 ing and proving immune ever-afterwards, though sometimes 

 sores and other secondary symptoms supervening some 

 cases prove fatal, and (4) the form with swelling of the neck 

 (but without any crepitating sound) which may be mistaken 

 for gloss-anthrax. True, the only diagnostic symptom of 

 anthrax is the presence of Bacillus anthracis, and in every 

 case in which the author has examined the blood of an 

 animal said to have died of Rinderpest, he has observed the 

 Bacilli ; though in the blood from the anus of animals still 

 suffering, or from the blood of affected animals killed for 

 the purpose of examination, the B. anthracis could rarely be 

 found. If, however, the quotations from Principal Williams' 



