manifest no tendency to suppuration, nor to emphysematous crepitation. These features distinguish them from phlegmon and emphysematous anthrax. When suppuration ensues it is tardy and indolent and is, on the whole, a favorable indication. In all cases the bacillus may be found on microscopic examination of the exudate. _Lesions._ Putrefaction of the carcass is usually rapid. In the very rapidly fatal cases the changes in the blood and tissues are often little marked, and after the removal of the enlarged, engorged spleen and infiltrated internal organs, the carcass might often be placed on the market without much suspicion. In more prolonged cases the blood is profoundly changed, being very dark, not subject to rapid æration, and incapable of coagulating firmly or at all. The red globules are crenated or otherwise distorted, adhere to each other in irregular masses, and have parted with much of their hæmoglobin which diffused in the serum stains the intima of the blood vessels and other white tissues. The leucocytes are relatively very much encreased. The bacteria are easily found in the intervals between the globules. The heart is often soft, discolored, as it were parboiled, with the endocardium deeply stained and the contained blood dark and diffluent or liquid. The liver is usually enlarged, softened, friable, and as if parboiled, with many hæmorrhagic patches. The spleen is materially, often enormously enlarged, irregular in outline from extreme engorgement with blood, and in exceptional cases even ruptured. An encrease to two or three times the normal is common. The bacilli are present in great numbers in the spleen, alike in the pulp, in the blood vessels and in the trabeculæ. The lymph glands are almost always hyperæmic, hypertrophied, and softened, especially in the vicinity of the localizations of the tissue lesions. They may be merely petechiated, or they may seem like a mass of black blood, and under pressure may break down readily into a sanguineous pulpy mass. Like the spleen they are favorite centres for the accumulation of the bacilli. The marked alterations in these glands will often indicate the channel by which the infection entered the body. The serosæ are usually hyperæmic, with many hæmorrhagic points and even extensive exudations, and they often enclose a sanguineous liquid. The hyperæmia and points or patches of extravasation are to be found in any part of the body in which the bacilli have been colonized, thus they are common in the tongue, the throat, the lungs, the stomach or bowels, the mesentery, the omentum, the skin, the connective tissue, or the muscular system. There may be bloody or gelatinoid exudation, but there are always the capillary embolisms by irregular masses of blood globules, and bacilli. These embolisms, the arrest of hæmatosis and the destructive action of the toxins on the red globules go far to account for the extreme fatality of the disease.