Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . omes poisoned throughout, and deathensues in twenty to forty-eight hours. Carbuncular erysipelas or braxy in sheep corresponds to black leg incattle, and, like it, always attacks the finest, fattest and most thriving onein the flock. The symptoms are thesame as in black leg, and death followsin from ten to sixty hours. Swine
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . omes poisoned throughout, and deathensues in twenty to forty-eight hours. Carbuncular erysipelas or braxy in sheep corresponds to black leg incattle, and, like it, always attacks the finest, fattest and most thriving onein the flock. The symptoms are thesame as in black leg, and death followsin from ten to sixty hours. Swine have the carbuncular erysipe-las the same as sheep; also, black tongue,tumors about the throat, and pharyn-geal anthrax; the latter is the mostcommon form, and is probably causedby eating the carcass of some anthraxanimal. There is fever, swelling aboutthe throat, neck and breast, which isred, shining, tender, and soon becomes purple, cold and insensible, andpits upon pressure; nausea, vomiting, retching, and loss of appetite; pur-ple patches form around the eyes and on the snout; breathing becomes dif-ficult, and the month livid; the temperature falls, and death follows infrom one to two days. Dogs, cats and other small animals die from anthrax, developed in th**. GLOSS-ANTHRAX OR BLACK TONGUE. 824 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE 8TC»CK DOCTOB. same manner as it is in pigs, and coming from their eating anthrax car-casses. They are affected in the mouth, throat and digestive organs,giving rise to vomiting, fever and death. Birds and poultry die of anthrax, from eating bits of anthrax develops in them in fever and swelling on the head, comb, breast andfeet, which turn black from mortification. In man, malignant pustule or charbon develops by inoculation; a smallred spot shows itself with itching, and increases in size. In the course oftwelve hours, a blister forms, breaks, dries, and a new crop springs uparound the old one, and so it spreads. The affected part
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