ANTHRAX

a virulent infectious disease, occurring more usually in cattle, sheep, horses, and other herbivora, but communicable by them to man. It affects animals in all parts of the world and particularly in marshy districts, usually through contaminated fodder or water, or by the infection of a surface wound. An attack is often very sudden, an animal falling down in convulsions, or there may be at first fever and bleeding at the mouth, ete. The public health authorities have very stringent regulations regarding the disposal of the bodies of infected animals. The men usually infected are such people as wool-sorters, farm hands, and grooms, and the disease may be either external or internal. In the former a vesicle forms on the surface, which becomes pustular, and the danger is that the disease may become generalized. To prevent this, the affected area should be completely excized, and _ pure carbolic acid applied to the surface. In the internal form, in which infection usually causes virulent pneumonia, the anti-anthrax serum which has been introduced should be tried, and the person’s strength kept up, but recovery is rather rare. zoological family including the gibbon, gorilla, orang, and chimpanzee, resembling man in many ways.