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in contact. In such a case the animal will die, usually in a few 

 hours. The treatment is difficult. The pustules^ must be opened, 

 and emptied of their contents by means of a small spoon with sharp 

 or thin edges (one made of tin will answer best), and the remaining 

 sores cauterized with carbolic acid. This operation is attended with 

 some danger to the operator. He should be careful not to soil his 

 hands with the contents of the pustules, and a person with sores^ on 

 his hands should not attend to such cases. 



MALIGMST OB GANGRENOUS ANGINA. 



This, called by some a form of anthrax, and by others diphthe- 

 ritic angina, usually presents itself as an enzooty, often complicated 

 with other forms, particularly with malignant erysipelas, to which 



Fig. 1255.— Wild Hog of Malacca. 



affection it is perhaps closely allied. The morbid process has its 

 principal seat in the throat, and in the mucous membranes of the 

 larynx and windpipe, and in adjoining parts, sometimes limited to a 

 certain part, the larynx for instance, and in other cases more dif- 

 fused. The principal symptoms, though not alike conspicuous ift 

 every case, consist of .wheezing and laborious breathing, hoarse 

 grunting, great heat, dryness of the snout, swelling of the tongue, 

 a brown-red color of the mucous membranes of the mouth, difficulty 

 in swallowing food, and attempts to vomit. In the region of the 

 larynx and along the windpipe appears a hot, hard, painful Swelling, 

 which often extends downward and backward to the fore legs, or 

 even to the lower part of the' chest and abdomen. The swelled 



