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considerable prostration ; quite often paraplegia ; anorexia and 
adipsia; meteorism ; abdominal pains; diarrhetic passages, 
often bloody ; in most cases hematuria; agalaxia; dispnoea, 
with or without cough ; head shaking, sometimes bent towards 
the shoulder; ordinary sterno-abdominal decubitus or with the 
hind legs spread and extended backwards, or in a complete lateral 
position ; death without convulsions. 
(5). Anthrax with external localization. (Symptomatic An¬ 
thrax).—Under this form it is distinguished from the other, first 
by its duration, always less short, then by the appearance of di¬ 
versiform carbuncular tumors upon different parts of the body, 
groin, neck, axillae, back, thorax, abdomen, croup, thigh and fet¬ 
locks. These tumors, also called carbuncular efflorescences, 
present the same characters as those of carbuncular anthrax of 
solipeds. They undergo the same changes. 
(c). ANTHRAX IN OVINES. 
(a). Anthrax without external localization. (Splenic apoplexy*). 
Sang de rate is common in France and Germany. It is rare 
in Belgium. It is a deadly sickness, which exists mostly in the 
enzootic form in some pastures, where it kills extensively, unless 
the flocks are rapidly removed. Its duration is short, and accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Reynal it is always fatal. 
It shows itself suddenly without any appreciable warning. 
The affected sheep stops eating; loses its ordinary liveliness; 
and goes about head down, and in a state of great prostration. It 
becomes unable to follow the flock ; the sheep stands back. The 
respiration and pulse are accelerated, the heart loses its normal 
action, and seems to be bounding in the chest. The peripheric 
temperature is sensibly lower, soon also is the internal. If mic¬ 
turition takes place naturally, which is very rare during the 
course of the disease, or under the influence of compulsion hema- 
turiaf is clearly manifested. The visible mucous membranes arc 
*Sang de Rate. 
tM. Reynal (loc. cit.) gives a very easy way to make the patient micturate. 
It only requires to take hold of him and pinch his uose with the fingers for a 
few seconds. The animal urinates at once while struggling. 
