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odour. After standing for twenty-four hours gives a brick- 

 coloured precipitate. Sometimes this urine is streaked 

 with blood. Colicky pains seldom present. Mucous mem- 

 branes greyish. Faecal matter soft and streaked with blood. 

 Blood more arterial than venous gives a reddish yellow- 

 tinged serum. 



Autopsy. — Subcutaneous blood-vessels very seldom 

 engorged. Muscles pale, epithelial lining of intestines 

 often partially detached, and of a greyish-green hue 

 and gangrenous odour, the denuded muscular coat being 

 congested. Peyer^s patches large and livid. 



The disease generally lasts from two and a half to four 

 days, and is prevalent during the hot summer months. 

 Texan cattle convey the disease without necessarily suffer- 

 ing from it. Whether animals which receive the disease 

 can transmit it to others has been questioned. This disease 

 shows that sloughing of patches of the intestinal mucous 

 membrane (such as occur in swine plague) may be seen in 

 undoubted anthrax of cattle. 



Gloss Antheax — Malignant Soee Theoat; Blain — 

 *^ HaivTcs.'' Sometimes the fauces become the special 

 seat of anthrax lesions, the tongue being enlarged espe- 

 cially at the base, livid in colour, and the seat of putrid 

 decomposition. The mucous membrane covering it and 



Fig. 24.— Gloss anthrax or blaln. Early stage. (Armatage.) 



inside the lips being raised in the form of blebs or phlyc- 

 tenae, which may be especially observed at the lateral 



