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no oedema; the ganglions nearest to the tumor are scarcely tume¬ 
fied, without change of color. Their pulpe inoculated to the rabbit 
does not produce anthrax, the spleen is not hypertrophied, the 
heart has no eechymosis, the intestinal mucous membrane is not 
at all congested. Upon that animal, anthrax has remained a simple 
local accident; the virulency has died in its start, the bacteridie 
has disappeared from the cavity where it was introduced, from 
the oedema where it has spread and from all parts where it has 
died, without leaving marks of its presence. 
Upon our second dog, it will not be the same if the pustule 
has been followed by general accidents. The tumor has pre¬ 
served its size, the skin is of a dark color, perhaps cyanotic ; its 
blood vessels are gorged with viscous blood, all its tissues are 
infiltrated with bloody liquid; there is oedema spreading round. 
Every thing is virulent in the tumor; the bacteridie is in good 
abundance; here long and flexuous, there in short separated seg¬ 
ments, some transparent, others with shying points on their tract 
or at their extremities. Besides, anthrax has spread beyond the 
limits of its starting point; not only the prepubic, mammary and 
inguinal ganglions are tumefied, blackish, often reduced to pulp ; 
but the pelvic, the sub-lumbar and all those which are on the way 
of the virulent elements, present similar alterations ; their pulp 
is full of bacteridies longer than those of the blood. If the disease 
is at its end, the ‘spleen is hypertrophied, loaded with bacteridies 
like the lymphatic glands; the small intestines begin to be con¬ 
gested, ecchymoses are found in the left cavities of the heart, 
&c., &c. {To be contmued.) 
INOCULATION FOR THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CAT- 
TLE.-ITS DRAWBACKS* 
In our former article on this subject attention was drawn to 
the fact that inoculation leads only to a mitigation of the losses in 
this disease, but that in no country has it succeeded in annihilat- 
* From the National Live Stock Journal. 
