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general symptoms of anthrax, and death from suffocation 

 often under twenty-four hours. It attacks pigs of five or 

 six months. 



(E) In Dogs and Oats. — These suffer when they have eaten 

 the carcasses of anthrax victims. The disease usually lo- 

 calizes itself in the inouth, throat, and digestive organs, 

 giving rise to bloody vomiting and purging, with high fe- 

 ver and often death. 



(F) Birds suffer from the primary disease and more 

 frequently from eating the debris of anthrax victims. The 

 susceptibility of birds is slight, but may be easily developed 

 by a chill or other cause of low vitality and lessened power 

 of resistance. In addition to the fever, characteristic 

 swellings appear mainly on the comb, beak, and feet. 



(G) In Man. — Malignant Pustule. There is itchiness of 

 the affected part, with a minute red spot, increasing in 

 twelve or fifteen hours to the size of a millet-seed, bursting 

 and drying with a livid appearance in thirty-six hours. 

 Next day a new crop of vesicles surround the seat of the first 

 and pass through the same course, to be succeeded by an- 

 other and still wider ring. The whole is surrounded by a 

 puffy, shining swelling, the central dry part passes through 

 the shades of red, blue, brown, and black, becomes gan- 

 grenous and insensible and in case of recovery is sloughed 

 off. At first the disease is quite local, but as it advances a 

 violent fever sets in, which too often proves fatal. 



BoGillar Anthrax without External Swellings. 



Ajpojplectic Form. In all animals there is a form in which 

 the victim is cut off after a few minutes' illness, with or 

 without discharge of blood from the natural openings of 

 the body and before time has been allowed for any of 

 those changes in the blood and internal organs which char- 

 acterize the disease. These are often to be distinguished 

 from apoplectic seizures and sunstroke only by their occur- 



