SOME EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTH. 
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kinds became affected, either from grazing over the infected 
pastures or devouring the flesh of the charbonous carcasses. It 
was reported that the deer in the swamps were succumbing to 
the disease, and several authentic cases of the disease in human 
beings were recorded, some proving fatal. 
The disease having extended to range animals, which were al¬ 
together beyond control, the more domesticated stock, as the work 
animals, cows, etc., only could be dealt with as regards treat¬ 
ment. Realizing at once the gravity of the situation and the 
likelihood of an extensive spread of the disease, I at once 
suggested protective inoculation with the Pasteur anthrax vac¬ 
cine, to try to protect the work animals, so that the farming op¬ 
erations would be delayed as little as possible. Fish-oil emul¬ 
sion was sprayed daily over the animals to prevent the attacks of 
flies, which were in alarming numbers, and the police juries of 
the various parishes passed a sanitary ordinance compelling the 
cremation of all charbonous and other carcasses. 
The therapeutic treatment followed was that suggested by 
Durain of an iodine and potassium iodide solution internally. 
Broken doses of mercurous chloride, combined with a saline, were 
also administered. The external enlargements—as early as pos¬ 
sible—were injected at various points, by means of an ordinary 
hypodermic syringe, with a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, 
with two grains of bichloride of mercury to the ounce of the so¬ 
lution. This treatment, which was to destroy infection in the 
local area and arrest absorption, had been suggested by Ar- 
noldow in malignant pustules in the human being. Unfortu¬ 
nately it was impossible to procure sufficient of the protective 
lymph at the outset to inoculate such a large number of ani¬ 
mals, as the entire supply in the stock of the Pasteur labora¬ 
tory in this country became exhausted, and Europe had to 
be drawn upon to complete the orders. Gradually the flies 
seemed to disappear or change their location; the disease be¬ 
came much less virulent, and whereas in the beginning it claimed 
from 75 to 100 per cent, as its victims, toward the last 75 to 
too per cent, seemed to recover, even without vaccination. 
