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based. Similar control is demanded of live stock products from 

 infected regions in America. 



The control of home markets, stockyards and abattoirs is no 

 less important. Fortunately the disease is short-lived and dead- 

 ly, 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 in- 

 fection would do much to limit extension. This would entail 

 the disinfection of the infected places, cars, boats, harness, cloth- 

 ing, 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 solu- 

 tion, hydrochloric acid, phenic acid, iodized phenol, creoline, 

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

 excision of the primary sore or swelling with antisepsis, antisep- 

 tic injections into the swelling). Internally, there have been 

 employed, dilute phenic acid, creolin, terebene, calomel, quinine, 

 hydrochloric acid, bichromate of potash, tincture of iron chlo- 

 ride, etc. (See below). 



ANTHRAX IN MAN. 



Causes: iafection from aaimals and their products, from soil, by flie?, by 

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

 ducts. Wounds as infection atria, ingestion, anthrax, inhalation. Lesions : 

 malignant vesicle, anthrax oedema, intestinal anthrax : pulmonary anthrax. 

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

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

 sidiary glands, mercurial ointment, iodine, sodium bicarbonate. For intesti- 

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

 salicylate, iron muriate, heart stimulants. For pulmonary anthrax : in- 

 hale chlorine, iodine, bromine, phenic acid, eucalyptol, oil of cinnamon, 

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

 pyocyancus, staphylococcus aureus, or streptococcus ; blood serum of 

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



Causes. Anthrax in man is usually the result of contamina- 

 tion by infected animals or their products. It is quite possible 

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



