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Less rapid, affected animals often resisting beyond twelve hours. 
There .are rare cases when it lasts as long as the second or third 
day. The sick animals are, nevertheless, generally affected with 
paresia, or paraplegia, from the first hours of the disease. But 
what, from a symptomalogical point of view, characterizes the 
disease is the gangrenous erysipelas—that is, the appearance in 
the course of the disease of spots, at first red, then purplish, upon 
different parts of the body and legs, principally about the neck, 
chest, belly, fore-arm and thigh. These increasing, join together 
and form gangrenous spots, covered with phlyctens. At the same 
time the subcutaneous cellular tissue of the regions where they 
exist becomes inflated and the skin sloughs off in large pieces. 
Antracoid Angina .—This form of anthrax in swine is slower 
in its development. Ordinarily the subjects afflicted succumb 
only after the second or third day. Independently of the ordi¬ 
nary symptomatic manifestations of anthrax, as prostration, 
anorexia, dyspnoea, cyanotic skin and mucous membranes, grind¬ 
ing of the teeth and flaccidit.y of the ears and caudal appendix, 
anthracoid angina is characterized by the development of a car- 
buncular tumor about the inferior portion of the parotid region 
on one or both sides. This tumor is generally not voluminous. 
It rapidly assumes a purplish or blackish aspect, and its sensi¬ 
bility at first is very great. The hairs which cover it are grouped 
together, and become hard, and their pale color contrasts strongly 
with the dark coloration of the skin. In some cases there is, 
properly speaking, no tumor, but instead a black, limited spot. 
It sometimes happens that other localizations appear on the 
tongue, which become black and gangrenous (glossanthrax), or 
extends to the whole buccal cavity (stomanthrax). In other cir¬ 
cumstances the affection is complicated with anthracoid angina. 
There is then a purplish and diffuse tumefaction of the neck, 
with the ordinary character of carbuncular enlargements. This 
tumefaction extends sometimes to the chest, shoulder and to the 
fore-arms. 
III. —Diagnosis of Anthrax After Death. 
The above described symptoms establish the diagnosis of an- 
