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ANTHRAX IN THE PIG. 
piece. This pig had a parotid abscess. The intestines had 
been removed before the inspection. 
The pig, supposed to be Irish, had none of the foregoing 
abnormal appearances, except patches of ci red soldier,” which 
were disposed on the buttocks, sides, and neck. On deca¬ 
pitation the cut surfaces were found to be rather dark, and 
the blood was tarry. The subcutaneous fat was of a pinkish 
tint. The intestinal mucous membrane, with the exception 
of about the last six feet, wffiich were normal, was congested, 
but nowhere ulcerated. 
We have in the cases just described examples of—(1. 
American.) Spots without red skin. Intestines not examined. 
The disease corresponds to that described as anthracoid 
angina by Fleming. (Query: so-called “ pig typhoid V’). 
(2.) Spots with red skin, and parotid tumour or abscess. 
(3, Irish ?) Red skin without spots, tumour, or abscess, but 
with intestinal lesion. (Query : so-called “ pig scarlatina ?”) 
The first of these (spots without red skin) had several tumours, 
containing blood and puriform liquid, which are uncommon 
in enteric fever, at least in the human subject; the second 
(spots with red skin) had a parotid abscess in one instance, 
and a tumour (probably a commencing abscess) in the 
other; and the third was a disease resembling human 
scarlet fever in one particular only, and differing from it 
in having a lesion highly characteristic of anthrax. 
In the Privy Council Order, dated September 17, 1878, 
which is termed also the <e Typhoid Fever of Swine Order, 
1878,” it is laid down that typhoid fever of swine (other¬ 
wise called soldier disease, or red disease), shall be deemed 
to be a disease (under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act, 1878), for the purposes of slaughter and compensation, 
notice of disease. Orders of Council, power of police and 
power of entry; and also (under the Animals Order, 1878), 
for the purpose of movement and exposure, movement of 
dung, burial, or destruction of carcases, and general provi¬ 
sions ; as also for cleansing and disinfection. 
The foregoing is a clear expression of opinion on the part 
of the veterinary advisers of the Privy Council: first, that red 
soldier in the pig is enteric or typhoid fever; and, second, 
that it is highly contagious or infectious. I submit, in 
opposition to this, that sufficient evidence as to the identity 
of the two diseases has not been adduced, the presence 
of ulceration of Peyer’s glands of the small intestine not 
being proof of enteric fever in the human subject, as Dr. 
John Harley and others have shown; that the ready com¬ 
municability of red soldier is evidence against the view of its 
