The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm StockBurkett, Charles William
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The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock
Burkett, Charles William
Veterinary medicine
A third form is external anthrax, which manifests itself in swelling of
the tongue, throat, rectum, and skin in cattle; and of the tongue,
throat, neck, shoulders, withers, flank, or thigh in horses. These
swellings have a firm, doughy feeling, are not painful generally, and
show a marked tendency to gangrene. They never suppurate. If cut (this
should never be done), they discharge a pale, straw-colored liquid. In
this may be found the microbe.
The rapidity with which putrefaction occurs in an anthrax carcass is
very marked. Another characteristic is, the blood loses its property of
clotting, is dark and tarry, and does not become light in color by
contact with air, like normal blood. In fulminant cases, however, these
characters are not so well marked. Other signs of the disease, if a
farmer should be so unfortunate as to open an anthrax carcass and
thereby spread the infection on his farm, will be great enlargement of
the spleen, or milt, and also of the liver. Bloody patches in the
tongue, throat, lungs, stomach, and intestines, caul, skin, and muscles,
or in fact in almost any part of the body, will be plainly visible.
=The Management of the Sick Animal= and disposal of the carcass are the
most important procedures in an outbreak of anthrax, from a sanitary
standpoint. Medicinal treatment is of little value. A vaccine has been
discovered that is very effective in preventing the disease. This has
been used very successfully in both this and European countries. If a
case of anthrax is suspected, call your veterinarian at once. The
disease will not pass through the air from a sick animal to a healthy
one, but the discharges which invariably occur during the progress of
the disease all contain the microbe, and everything soiled by them is
infectious material and capable of spreading the disease.
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