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the bloody and gelatinous exudations show the true nature 

 of the disease. When seen during life there are signs of 

 plethora, fever, red eyes, costiveness, bloody, mucous 

 dung, bloody urine, colicky pains, unsteady gait, breath- 

 lessness when driven, flattened fleece, deep-sunken eyes, 

 stupor, convulsions and speedy death. Many cases of so- 

 called braxy are not communicable to other animals, hence 

 not genuiae anthrax. 



Anthrax Fever in Sivine. There are dullness, thirst, in- 

 appetence, a tardy, unsteady gait, hot, pendent ears, 

 drooping tail, deep, dull brownish-red eyes, hurried 

 breathing, small pulse, violent heart's action, and tense, 

 tender abdomen. Nervous tremors, twitching or cramps 

 come on, the body cools, bloody urine is passed and some- 

 times bloody dung. Dark or black spots appear on the 

 skin and mucous membranes, as in hog-cholera, and if the 

 animal survives, these are sloughed off, often leaving sores 

 If swelling appears externally it is often a herald of im- 

 provement. 



Anthrax Fever in Birds. There is inappetence, ruffling 

 of plumage, sinking of the head in the shoulders, foetid 

 diarrhoea, drooping, trailing wings, tenderness to the 

 touch, muscular weakness, unsteady walk, inability to 

 perch, hvid or black comb and wattles. Sometimes the 

 feathers drop off and swellings appear about the head, 

 throat or feet. 



Treatment of Malignant Anthrax, 



This is unsatisfactory owing to the rapidly fatal action 

 of the poison. The first cases usually die, the later ones 

 may often be treated with fair success. 



General Treatment. In very plethoric subjects bleeding 

 may prove beneficial at the outset, but in advanced stages, 

 in poor and weak subjects, and in those vnth feeble con- 

 stitutions, like sheep, it is to be strongly condemned. Act 

 on the bowels, kidneys and skin to eliminate the poison 

 (sulphates of soda, or magnesia, acetate, nitrate, or tar- 



