The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . It is mostcommonly seen in summer and autumn, especially when thetemperature is high and rain frequent. Most of the latest writers believe that the contagious prin-ciple of charbon or anthrax consists in certain extremelyminute vegetable organisms which are found in the blood invast quantities. They are in the shape of rods, and havebeen .called anthrax bacteria and bacillus anthraeis. Theyare so extremely small that one writer estimates that eight orten millions may exist in a single drop of diseased conducted exp
The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . It is mostcommonly seen in summer and autumn, especially when thetemperature is high and rain frequent. Most of the latest writers believe that the contagious prin-ciple of charbon or anthrax consists in certain extremelyminute vegetable organisms which are found in the blood invast quantities. They are in the shape of rods, and havebeen .called anthrax bacteria and bacillus anthraeis. Theyare so extremely small that one writer estimates that eight orten millions may exist in a single drop of diseased conducted experiments leave hardly any doubt butthat these are capable of conveying this disease to healthyanimals. These poison-producing organisms have a wonderful ten-acity of life, and hence every part of a diseased animal, theblood, flesh, hides, hair, hoof, horns and excrement are poison-ous, and will convey the infection. Prof. Gross mentionsthe history of three persons who were attacked by the diseaseafter picking the feathers from a turkey-buzzard (a bird itself.
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