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jected to vaccination, with the result that the losses in those 

 countries practicing this method have been steadily reduced 

 year by year. The sheep-owner must exhibit great caution in 

 the handling of animals which have died or are suffering from 

 this disease, as malignant pustule in man results from the inocu- 

 lation of anthrax blood into his system by the slightest wound or 

 abrasion of the skin, a pin scratch having been known to produce 

 the disease. Steele says: "A case is recorded of a shepherd, in 

 bleeding a braxy sheep, getting a drop of blood in his eye, not 

 washing it out, and dying from anthrax in three days." 



Then again woolsorters' disease is caused by the inhalation 

 of powdered anthrax material from the wool of diseased sheep. 

 The flesh of animals which have succumbed to this disease is ex- 

 tremely dangerous, and has proven fatal to pigs and dogs. So 

 in all cases the carcasses should be burned without skinning, or 

 buried to a depth of at least six feet, the carcass being thickly 

 covered with quick lime. 



The after-death appearances of an anthrax carcass will re- 

 veal the following: Liquid bloody effusions directly under the 

 skin, the blood in the arteries and veins is black and does not 

 coagulate, red spots will be noticeable on the peritoneum cover- 

 ing the bowels, and on the kidney capsules, effusions of blood will 

 be found in the stomachs and bowels, the spleen is greatly en- 

 larged, and the trabeculae (partitions) on its inside are broken 

 down, so that by holding it up by one end its contents will gravi- 

 tate to the other. This condition is not present in any other 

 disease, and is of itself diagnostic of the complaint. The liver is 

 also enlarged, and the urine in the bladder appears to be mixed 

 with blood. 



Blach-Lcg? Quartcr-IU. 



Scientifically termed emphysema infectuosum and haema- 

 tosepsis. This is an anthracoid disease, due to a germ which, 



