the disease. Should the outbreak occur in a particular infected area or field, 

 this should at once be thoroughly drained, and the animals removed from it! 

 The site of which we append a drawing has almost every year been a 

 source of great loss to the farmer holding the land, but it is now thoroughly 

 drained according to our directions, and there have been no further outbreaks 

 since. 



In France, cattle are largely inoculated with the so-called anthrax 

 vaccine, which develops the disease in a mild form, and renders the animals 

 in most instances proof against further attacks. Large numbers of sheep 

 and other animals have been thus inoculated with vaccine by AI. Pasteur 

 and the results of his labours attest the practical value of his conclusions.-*^ 

 It is our practice to administer sulphite of sodium to animals which have 

 "been in contact with the infected ones, in order to act as a preventive for 

 which purpose, we believe, it is very effectual ; and it is also of undoubted 

 value in the early stages of anthrax fever, and possibly of some use even in 

 the more advanced conditions of this most fatal disease. 



Some authors prefer the internal use of carbolic acid and other 

 antiseptics ; but we believe them to be less effectual than the sulphite given 

 in two to six drachm doses. The late Mr. D. Gresswell, examiner in cattle 

 pathology at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, was also of this 

 opinion, and Mr. Charles Gresswell, of Nottingham^ also concurs with 

 this view. 



Of the treatment of glossanthrax and anthracoid angina we need say 

 tut little, as these diseases are so often fatal, no matter what treatment 

 be adopted. The internal treatment is the same as that for anthrax fever. 

 The vesicles on the tongue may be opened and dressed with carbolic acid 

 solution (i in 30 of water). Fomentations of the swellings are beneficial. 

 Where the swelling is causing suffocation, tracheotomy is necessary. 

 Professional advice is called for in all outbeaks of anthrax, not only for the 

 sake of the general management, but also in order that proper steps may be 

 laken to stamp out the disease. 



SCARLET FEVER AND PURPURA. 



The term blood poisoning, although an ambiguous one, owing to its being 

 applied to several different diseases of the horse, is nevertheless a convenient 

 appellation for those two fevers : — scarlet fever and purpura, which are 

 accompanied by the formation of an eruption. 



The more scientific term for these two closely allied diseases, with the 

 account of which ends our description^of the so-called zymotic fevers of the 

 Iiorse, would be " the eruptive fevers," or fevers in which a definite eruption 

 breaks out in the skin and in the membranes lining the nose and mouth. 

 The cause of these two diseases, which, although presenting o-reat 



• According to Dr. Klein, aninials inoculated in this manner arc only protected against tht 

 ^llsease for a term of nine months or so. 



