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The control of home markets, stockyards, and abattoirs is no 

 less important. Fortunately the disease is shortlived and deadly, 

 and is much more easily discovered and arrested than in the case 

 of plagues with prolonged incubation and frequently occult form 

 (glanders, tuberculosis). An inspection of the various markets, 

 and the detention of herds that have shown anthrax infection 

 would do much to limit extension. This would entail the dis- 

 infection of the infected places, cars, boats,, harness, clothing, 

 and other things, and of the skins of the healthy animals of the 

 infected herd. 



The Therapeutic Treatment of anthrax in animals must in the 

 main follow in the same lines given below for the human being ; 

 locally, antiseptics (mercuric chloride or iodide, lyuzol's solution, 

 hydrochloric acid, phenic acid, iodized phenol, creoline, cresyl, 

 oil of turpentine, formalin, salicylic acid, scarification, excision 

 of the primary sore or swelling with antisepsis, antiseptic injec- 

 tions into the swelling.) Internally, there have been employed, 

 dilute phenic acid, creolin, terebene, calomel, quinine, hydro- 

 chloric acid, bichromate of potash, tincture of iron chloride, etc. 

 (see below). 



ANTHRAX IN MAN. 



Causes : infection from animals and their products, from soil, by flies, by 

 dust. An industrial disease, of workers among animals and animal products. 

 Wounds as infection atria, ingestion anthrax, inhalation. Lesions : malig- 

 nant vesicle, anthrax cedema, intestinal anthrax : pulmonary anthrax. 

 Symptoms : malignant vesicle, cedematous anthrax, intestinal, pulmonary. 

 Prevention. Treatment : caustics : antiseptics, excision of nodule and sub- 

 sidary glands, mercurial ointment, iodine, sodium bicarbonate. For intes- 

 tinal anthrax : emetic, oleaginous purgatives, potassium iodide, sodium 

 salicylate, iron muriate, heart stimulants. For pulmonary anthrax : inhale 

 chlorine, iodine, bromine, phenic acid, eucalyptol, oil of cinnamon, steri- 

 lized cultures of prodigiosus, pneumo-coccus of Friedlander, bacillus 

 pyocyaneus, staphylococcus aureus, or streptococcus : blood serum of 

 immune animals : blood serum (sterilized) of anthrax cattle. 



Causes. Anthrax in man is usually the result of contamination 

 by infected animals or their products. It is quite po.ssible that 

 man, like animals, may be infected directly from the soil or water, 

 or from the same source through the medium of flies or wind- 



