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the disease. Should the outbreak occur ina particular infected area or field, 
this should at once be thoroughly drained, and the animals removed from it, 
The site of which we append a drawing has almost every year been a 
source of great loss to the farmer holding the land, but it is now thoroughly 
‘drained according to our directions, and there have been no further outbreaks 
since. P 
In France, cattle are largely inoculated with the so-called anthrax 
vaccine, which develops the disease in a mild form, and renders the animals 
in most instances proof against further attacks, Large numbers of sheep 
and other animals have been thus inoculated with vaccine by M, Pasteur, 
and the results of his labours attest the practical value of his coaclusions.* 
It is our practice to administer sulphite of sodium to animals which have 
been in contact with the infected ones, in order to act asa preventive, for 
which purpose, we believe, it is very effectual; and it is also of undoubted 
value in the early stages of anthrax fever, and possibly of some use even in 
the more advanced conditions of this most fatal disease. : 
Some authors prefer the internal use of carbolic acid and other 
antiseptics ; but we believe them to be less effectual than the sulphite given 
in two to six drachm doses. The late Mr. D. Gresswell, examiner in cattle 
pathology at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, was also of this 
opinion, and Mr. Charles Gresswell, of Nottingham, also concurs with 
this view. 7 
Of the treatment of glossanthrax and anthracoid angina we need say 
‘but little, as these diseases are so often fatal, no matter what treatment 
be adopted. The internal treatment is the same as that for anthrax fever. 
The vesicles on the tongue may be opened and dressed with carbolic acid 
solution (1 in 30,of water). Fomentations of the swellings are beneficial. 
Where the swelling is causing suffocation, tracheotomy is necessary. 
Professional advice is called for in all outbeaks of anthrax, not only for the 
sake of the general management, but also in order that proper steps may be 
taken to stamp out the disease. 
(4 SCARLET FEVER AND PURPURA. tf 
‘THE term blood: poisoning, although an ambiguous one, owing to its being 
applied to several different diseases of the horse, is nevertheless a convenient 
Appellation for those two a —scarlet fever and purpura, which are 
ipani the formation of an eruption. 
Oe ee term for these two closely allied diseases, with the 
account of which ends our description of the so-called zymotic fevers of the 
‘horse, would be “the eruptive fevers,” or fevers in which a definite eruption 
‘breaks out in the skin and in the membranes lining the nose and mouth. 
The cause of these two diseases, which, although presenting great 
BS ‘ebaording to Dr. Klein, animals inoculated in this manner are only pretected against the 
idicenes for a term of nine months or so. 
