ANTHRAX IN NATAL. 
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dened. After a time enlargements form about the neck, brisket, 
one of the limbs (causing lameness), or on some other part of the 
body ; the bowels are constipated, and the urine is high-colored. 
At first the swellings are very tender when touched, but after¬ 
wards become insensible and cold, and after a few hours crepitate 
when handled; the depression increases, in some cases there are 
convulsions, and in a few hours the animal dies in an insensible 
state. 
Gloss-anthrax (carbuncle of the tongue ).—Although I have 
never seen this form in Natal myself, I think it proper to direct 
attention to it, as several colonists have described an affection of 
the mouth of cattle, which leaves no doubt in my mind as to its 
nature. In former times it was very common in England, but is 
now rarely seen. 
It is characterized by the eruption of vesicles (or blisters) on 
gums, lips, the tongue and cheek, which ultimately becomes of a 
blackish color, and increase to the size of a half-crown; the 
tongue becomes of a bluish-black color, much swollen, and hangs 
from the mouth ; the vesicles rupture, leaving ragged, black-edged 
ulcers, which eat into the parts involved; a stringy, acrid mu¬ 
cous, mixed with blood, issues from the mouth; the swelling 
extends from the cheeks and tongue to the throat, and may cause 
death from suffocation, if not from the disease itself. Fever, of 
course, is present in all cases. 
POST MORTEM APPEARANCES. 
There are certain well-marked characteristics of this disease, 
which can be distinguished by a careful observer, even though the 
symptoms during life do not enable him to determine its real 
nature. 
One of the most constant and prominent is the tendency to 
rapid decomposition, with the accompanying distension of the 
body with gas; the rectum is frequently everted and of a deep 
red color, and foetid discharges from the natural openings are 
very common. The blood is of a very dark color, does not coag¬ 
ulate, or if so, the clot is not firm, and it has a peculiar sickening 
groeU; it is visual to find bloody tippors in certain parts of the 
