ANTHRAX IN NEW JERSEY. 
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1895. I also visited five other cases on July 9th, all of which 
died within a few hours. Hearing a few days later of several 
animals dying in the vicinity of Newport, I went to investi¬ 
gate on my own account. 
Producing blood from a horse suffering with external an- 
j thrax, I inoculated a rabbit, which died in about thirty-six 
hours, and on post mortem presented all the lesions of anthrax. 
Examined this blood with microscope and found bacillus an- 
thracis, thus expelling any doubt as to diagnosis. 
On the 15 th of July I held a post mortem on a horse, 
owned by Ambrose Gandy, the animal being sick only twelve 
or fourteen hours. This examination was made in the pres- 
tence of Dr. N. M. Drake, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Glandon, 
M.D., of Newport, N. J., who examined some of the blood 
ttaken from the heart, and found the bacillus anthracis in 
abundance. 
I saw three cases of external anthrax in cattle, one a steer 
that recovered entirely, being one of three remaining out of 
a herd of ten, the rest having all died within three weeks; 
also a bull that was terribly swollen in the hind extremities, 
the scrotum also swollen and covered with coffee-colored 
spots; the animal lived a week in this condition. 
On the ibthof July I received from Pasteur Anthrax Vac¬ 
cine Company forty doses of fresh anthrax lymph in twenty- 
dose vials, receiving later in the day one hundred doses more. 
I began my inoculations on the afternoon of July 16th, and by 
July 27th had inoculated one hundred and seventy-six horses, 
one hundred and fifty-two cattle, and fourteen mules. Of this 
number only three contracted and died of anthrax, and these 
were taken before second inoculation was made. In some 
instances where people had part of their stock inoculated, one 
or more of the animals that had not been inoculated had died ; 
this generally happening on farms previously infected. Only 
in one instance do I know of an animal dying from the disease 
after the second inoculation. 
The only bad effects I received from the lymph was from 
the first two twenty-dose vials, leading me to suppose that 
they had been kept on hand for some time. Several of the 
