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5. LoRENZ. Die Veterinarpolizeiliche Behandlung des Schwein- 

 erothlaufes und die Schutzimpfung. Berliner thierarz. Wochen., 1897, 

 S. 574. 



6. IvORENZ. Schutzimpfiingen gegeii den Rotlauf der Schweine. 

 Ibid, 1897, S. 109. 



7. Moore. Mouse septicemia bacilli in a pig's spleen with some 

 observations on their pathogenic properties. Jour, of Comp. Med. and 

 Vet. Archives, Vol. XIII (1892), p. 333. 



8. Pasteur ET Thuillier. La vaccination du rouget des pores 4 

 Paide du virus mortel attenu^ de cette maladie. Comp. rendus Acad, 

 des Sciences, Vol. XCVII (1883), p. 1163. 



9. ScHUTz. Ueber den Rotlauf der Schweine und die Impfung 

 mit demselben. Arbeit a. d. Kaiserlichen Gesundheistamte, Bd. I 

 (188s), S. 56. 



10. Smith. An Examination of Pasteur's Vaccine for Rouget. 

 Annual Report U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, 1885, p. 187. 



11. Smith. Swine erysipelas or mouse septicemia bacilli from an 

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ANTHRAX. 



Synonyms. Splenic fever ; splenic apoplexy ; wool 

 sorters' disease ; malignant pustule ; anthracemia ; mycosis 

 intestinalis ; charbon ; Milzbrand. 



§ 116. Characterization. Anthrax is an infectious 

 disease occurring sporadically and in epizootics in herbivora 

 and omnivora and communicable to nearly all warm-blooded 

 animals, and to man. It is characterized by the presence in 

 the diseased tissues or liquids of Bacterium anthracis, by an 

 enlarged spleen, blood extravasations and by local gangrene. 

 It usually occurs in the acute form. 



§ 117. History. Anthrax is among the oldest of the 

 known infectious diseases of animals. Descriptions of epi- 

 demics and epizootics of this disease are given by Homer, 

 Plutarch, Livy and other writers before the Christian Era. 

 The Arab physicians designated it as "Persian Fire." Exten- 

 sive outbreaks are mentioned in the literature of the fifteenth, 

 sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 



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