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fectly destroyed. Buildings, yards, sheds, etc., occupied by 

 the diseased should be thoroughly disinfected. Pastures 

 should be abandoned for that season, and graves fenced 

 safely from, trespass for two years. 11. None but the at- 

 tendants should approach the diseased. 12. Before hand- 

 ling, cauterize all raw sores on hands or face with lunar caus- 

 tic and wash the hands in a weak solution of carbolic 

 acid both before and after. 13. Shut up all dogs, cats, 

 and pigeons. 14. Never allow the flesh or milk to pass 

 into consumption. 



By way of prevention I have had excellent results from 

 two hypodermicinjections, at intervals of a week, of a drachm 

 of the diseased blood or exudate, after it had been exposed 

 for an hour to a temperature of 150° F. Pasteur's method 

 of injecting the weakened virus is only permissible on soils 

 already charged with the poison. Elsewhere it endangers 

 the permanent implanting of the germ in new soil. 



ViBEioNic Anthrax. Emphysematous Antheax. Bloody 

 MuERAm. Milzbeand-Emphysem. Chaebon Symp- 



TOMATIQDE. 



From the time of Chabert till recently this has been 

 classed with bacillar anthrax, but is now shown to depend 

 on a vibrio or motile rod, shorter and broader than that of 

 anthrax, rounded at its ends and fui-nished with a clear re- 

 frangent nucleus near one end (rarely in the middle, though 

 there may be two, one at each end of a long vibrio). The 

 nucleus is easily mistaken for a micrococcus, as the filament 

 has the same index of refraction with the surrounding liquid. 

 In its active movements too it often presents but one end, 

 and thus appears spherical. 



The germ is fatal to guinea-pigs, and in large doses to 

 cattle, sheep, and goats, but can be inoculated with diflBculty 

 only on rabbits, horses, and asses, while dogs, cats, swine, 

 and chickens successfully resist it. 



