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yellow serum or pure blood. They may render the patient 

 nuable to walk, see, feed, drink, urinate, or breathe ac- 

 cording to situation. The mucous membranes become 

 swelled, puffy, dusky or yellow, with red spots and streaks, 

 and a viscid, bloody and finally foetid discharge flows from 

 the nose. Breathing may become labored and quick in 

 connection with exudations into the chest, or violent colics 

 may supervene from effusions in the abdomen. With inter- 

 nal effusions death ensues in forty-eight hours, with exter- 

 nal only, the effects may last for weeks or months before 

 ending in recovery or death. In the latter case the swellings 

 may suddenly disappear to reappear elsewhere, they may 

 subside permanently in connection with free action of the 

 bowels or kidneys, or they may slough, leaving extensive 

 and sluggish sores and scars. 



(B) In the Ox. — (1) BUch Tongue. Also in tlie Horse, 

 This is manifested by the eruption of bhsters, red, purple 

 or black, on the tongue, palate and cheeks, increasing in- 

 dividually often to the size of a hen's egg, burstiag, dis- 

 charging an ichorous irritating fluid, and forming un- 

 healthy sores with more or less tumefaction. There is a 

 bloody discharge from the mouth, active fever sets in and 

 death ensues iu twenty-four to forty-eight hours. 



(2) Black-Quarter. Bloody Murrain. This is malig- 

 nant anthrax, with extensive engorgement of a shoul- 

 der, quarter, neck, breast or side. It is most frequent ia 

 young and rapidly thriving stock, attaekiag first the finest 

 of the herd or those thriving most rapidly, and runs its 

 course so quickly that its victims are usually found dead 

 in the field as the first indication of anything amiss. If 

 seen during life there are the general symptoms of pleth- 

 ora, fever, with halting on one limb, stiffness, and excessive 

 tenderness of some parts of the skin, to be promptly fol- 

 lowed by swelling of such parts, with yellow or bloody 

 oozing from the surface, and cracHiag when pressed. 

 These swellings become firm, tense, insensible -and even 

 cold, and if the subject survives may finally slough open 



