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ance, small haemorrhages are often present, and on micro- 

 scopic examination numerous bacilli are seen. The internal 

 organs show congestion and cloudy swelling, with some- 

 times small haemorrhages, and their capillaries contain 

 enormous numbers of bacilli, as has already been described 



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FIG. 83. Portion of kidney of a guinea-pig dead of anthrax, showing 

 the bacilli in the capillaries, especially of the glomerulus. 



Paraffin section ; stained by Gram's method and Bismarck - brown. 

 X 300. 



in the case of the ox (Fig. 83) ; the spleen also shows a 

 corresponding condition. Highly susceptible animals may 

 be infected by being made to inhale the bacilli or their 

 spores, and also by being fed with spores, a general infec- 

 tion rapidly occurring by both methods. 



Anthrax in the Human Subject. As we have noted, 

 man occupies a middle position in the scale of suscepti- 



