The diseases and disorders of The diseases and disorders of the ox, with some account of the diseases of the sheep diseasesdisorderox00gres Year: 1889 DISEASES OF THE OX AND SHEEP. 247 and they are not capable of movement. It is very important to know that if an animal which has died of anthrax be not opened, its whole body and its excretions being protected from the air by being buried or otherwise carefully disposed of, the bacilli become quite innocuous, and die in about a week or a little more. Hence it is highly necessary that the bodies of animals Fig. 30. The above picture represen
The diseases and disorders of The diseases and disorders of the ox, with some account of the diseases of the sheep diseasesdisorderox00gres Year: 1889 DISEASES OF THE OX AND SHEEP. 247 and they are not capable of movement. It is very important to know that if an animal which has died of anthrax be not opened, its whole body and its excretions being protected from the air by being buried or otherwise carefully disposed of, the bacilli become quite innocuous, and die in about a week or a little more. Hence it is highly necessary that the bodies of animals Fig. 30. The above picture represents the microscopical appearance of a small portion of a section cut through the kidney of a rabbit which died from the results of anthrax. The capillaries of the cortex are naturally injected with the bacilli anthracis. 1. A glomerulus. 2. Capillaries surrounding the convoluted uriniferous tubules, which are not here shown. Magnifying power 450 (Spiller's purple). —Klein. which have died of this disease should not-be opened, unless it should be supposed necessary. Moreover, too much care cannot be taken by all who have to handle the carcases, since the disease can very easily be communicated to human beings. Hence Pasteur's belief, that earthworms are instrumental in bringing up to the surface of the land the bacilli of anthrax
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