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situation. The mucous membranes become swelled, puffy, 

 dusky or yellow, with red spots and streaks, and a viscid, 

 bloody, and finally foetid discharge flows from the nose. 

 Breathing may become labored and quick in connection with 

 exudations into the chest, or violent colics may supervene 

 from effusions in the abdomen. "With internal effusions 

 death ensues in forty-eight hours, with external only, the ef- 

 fects may last for weeks or months before ending in recovery 

 or death. In the latter case the swellings may suddenly dis- 

 appear to reappear elsewhere, they may subside permanently 

 in connection witli free action of the bowels or kidneys, or they 

 may slough, leaving extensive and sluggish sores and scars. 



(B) In the Ox. — (1) Blaok Tongue ; also in the Horse. 

 This is manifested by the eruption of blisters, red, purple, or 

 black, on the tongue, palate, and cheeks, increasing individ- 

 ually often to the size of a hen's egg, bursting, discharging 

 an ichorous, irritating fluid, and forming unhealthy sores 

 with more or less tumefaction. There is a bloody discharge 

 from the moutli, active fever sets in, and death ensues in 

 twenty -four to forty -eight hours. 



(2) Black-quarter ; Bloody Murrain, This is some- 

 times anthrax, with extensive engorgement of a shoulder, 

 quarter, neck, breast, or side. It is most frequent in young 

 and rapidly thriving stock, attacking first the finest of the 

 herd or those thriving most rapidly, and runs its course so 

 quickly that its victims are usually found dead in the field as 

 the first indication of anything amiss. If seen during life 

 there are the general symptoms of plethora, fever, with halt- 

 ing on one limb, stiffness, and excessive tenderness of some 

 parts of the skin, to be promptly followed by swelling of 

 such parts, with yellow or bloody oozing from the surface. 

 These swellings become firm, tense, insensible, and even cold, 

 and if the subject survives may finally slough open and leave 

 large, unsightly, and inactive sores. Recoveries are the ex- 

 ception and too often slow and tedious. 



