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general symptoms of anthrax, and death from suffocation 

 often under twenty-four hours. It attacks pigs of five oi 

 six months. 



(E) Dogs and Cats. These suffer when they have eaten 

 the carcasses of anthrax victims. The disease usually lo- 

 calizes itself in the mouth, throat and digestive organs, 

 giving rise to bloody vomiting and purging, with high fe- 

 ver and often death. 



(F) BniDS — Suffer from the primary disease and more 

 frequently from eating the debris of anthrax victims. In 

 addition to the fever, characteristic swellings appear 

 mainly on the comb, beak and feet. 



(G) Man. Malignant Pustule. There is itchiness of the 

 affected part, with a minute red spot, increasing in twelve 

 or fifteen hours to the size of a millet-seed, bursting and 

 drying with a livid appearance in thirty-six hours. Next 

 day a new crop of vesicles surround the seat of the first 

 and pass through the same course to be succeeded by an- 

 other and still wider ring. The whole is surrounded by a 

 puffy, shining sweDing, the central dry part passes through 

 the shades of red, blue, brovm and black, becomes gan- 

 grenous and insensible and in case of recovery is sloughed 

 off. At first the disease is quite local, but as it advances 

 a violent fever sets in, which too often proves fatal. 



Maligimnf Anthrax witliout External Swellings. 



Apoplectic Form. In aU animals there is a form in which 

 the victim is cut off after a few minutes' illness with or 

 without discharge of blood from the natural openings of 

 the body and before time has been allowed for any of 

 those changes in the blood and internal organs which 

 characterize the disease. These are often to be distin- 

 guished from apoplectic seizures and sunstroke only by 

 their occurrence simultaneously with other forms of an- 

 thrax and in the same places. 



Anthrax Fever in Horses. Vigorous health is replaced 

 by dulhiess, muscular weakness, stupor, hanging on the 



