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(C) In Sheep. — Ca/rbvmAnda/r Erysipelas. This strongly 

 resembles black-quarter of cattle. Like that it attacks the 

 finest of the flock and the bodies of its victims are found 

 dead in the field. There is first halting on a limb, then a 

 red or violet swelling, beginning inside the leg and rapidly 

 extending over the body. The feeling, appearance and 

 course of the swelling agree with those of hlaclc-quarter 

 and death occurs in a few hours, or in exceptional cases in 

 two days. 



(D) In Swine. — These suffer from Anthrax of the Mouth 

 comparable to Hack-tongue, carbuncular erysipelas, like 

 that of the sheep, pharyngeal anthrax, and tumors about the 

 throat, which sometimes, at least, have the anthrax char- 

 acters. 



(1) The Carbuncular Erysipelas has been constantly con- 

 founded in systematic veterinary works with swine-plague, 

 but is a distinct disease, being derivable from other anthrax 

 patients and communicable to other genera of animals and 

 to man, whereas hog-cholera is mainly confined to swine. 



(2) Malignant Sore-throat / Pharyngeal Anthrax. This 

 is perhaps the most frequent form of the disease in swine, 

 often appearing to arise from eating the carcasses or ex- 

 cretions of other anthrax animals. There is active fever 

 with redness and swelling of the thi'oat, neck, breast, and 

 even the fore limbs. This is at first hard, elastic, M'arm, 

 and tender, but becomes purple, cool, insensible, and pits on 

 pressure. There is loss of appetite, retching, vomiting, 

 purple patches and black spots on the eyes, snout, and skin, 

 difficult breathing through the mouth, livid tongue, de- 

 creasing temperature, great weakness, and death in one or 

 two days. 



(3) In the guttural tumors the swelling is circumscribed 

 to the size of a kidney-bean or egg, on one or both sides 

 of the throat, extending to involve the throat generallj', 

 causing vomiting, difficult breathing and swallowing, the 



