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on his right side, grunting and sighing as if in great pain. The 
left ear was swollen to three times its natural thickness ; the left 
fore leg stiff and flexed; the ear, as well as leg, deathly cold. 
The animal was made to walk, but had lost the use of the left 
leg, which was carried strongly flexed. Temperature, 1051; pulse 
too fast to be counted ; faeces hard and dry, and entirely filling 
the rectum ; visible mucous membranes of a brownish red color ; 
in the pharyngeal region a large tumor, which as well as the ear 
and leg was very tender on pressure ; respiration accelerated and 
difficult; deglutition impossible. The swelling extended from 
the pharynx down to the sternum and the epidermis between the 
front extremities and over the* whole thorax and abdomen of a 
reddish color. Diagnosis was made of some form of anthrax, 
and as treatment in my judgment would be of no avail he was 
left to himself. 
Six o’clock the next evening found the hog still alive, but 
stiff all over, and unable to move ; respiration much more difficult 
than the evening before ; visible mucous membrane and proboscis 
of a dead leaden hue; color of epidermis changed to a leaden- 
purplish color. Temperature, 931. 
Soon after the hog died from asphyxia. Post mortem, four 
hours after death, showed all the well marked symptoms of an¬ 
thrax, and, furthermore, an extensive inflammation of the oeso¬ 
phagus from the pharynx down to the stomach, and covered in its 
upper two-thirds with heavy diptheritic deposits. The parenchyma 
of the spleen was unusually broken up, parts of it even running 
out in the abdominal cavity. 
The proprietors were recommended to burn the hog yards 
over and put no new arrivals in them ; also to quarantine all 
animals on hand for a few days. The healthy hogs were imme¬ 
diately removed to new pens. Since then two weeks have passed 
and no more have been attacked. 
The disease was probably brought in from the country with 
some infected hogs. In its spontaneous development I cannot 
believe. This form of anthrax, so far as I can learn, has never 
before been noticed in this locality, the apoplectic form, however, 
not being rare. 
