124 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



It is further distinguished from bacillar anthrax, in that 

 animals insusceptible to that by reason of a previous attack 

 or inoculation are not thereby rendered exempt from vibri- 

 onic anthrax. 



The blood is not usually infecting, as it rarely contains 

 the germ save in the advanced stages. The vibrio is found 

 above all, in the liver, but also in the lymphatic glands, 

 spleen, kidney, lung, and intermuscular connective tissue 

 when the seat of the exudate. 



The disease is ushered in by high fever and much depres- 

 sion, followed in a few hours by a swelling on some part 

 of the body, at first soft and doughy, but soon crackling 

 under pressure from the formation of gases under the skin. 

 The ear laid on the swelling detects a fine crepitating sound 

 caused by the bursting of fine bubbles of gas. The surface 

 may be the seat of blistei-s with reddish contents, or it may 

 discharge drops of a bloody or straw-colored serum which 

 concretes on the surface, and the swelling, at first hot, may 

 finally become cold and the skin dry and leathery should 

 the animal survive. The skin may, further, crack open or 

 slough off, together with part of the tissue beneath, forming 

 an indolent, unhealthy sore. More commonly the fever 

 advances rapidly, with rapidly increasing weakness and de- 

 bility, and death ensues in a period varying from six hours 

 to two days. 



It is only in the mildest cases that treatment can be of 

 any avail, and then it need not differ materially from that 

 advised for bacillar anthrax. The early appearance of the 

 general fever would suggest the prompt use of internal 

 antiseptics (salicylate of soda, iodide of potassium, quinia, 

 bichloride of mercury, biniodide of mercury, bichromate of 

 potash). For the local swelling, too, the free use of acid 

 astringents (acetic, or hydrochloric acid) largely diluted, 

 and antiseptics superficially and by hypodei'mic injection is 

 to be recommended. Internally tincture of muriate of iron. 



