ver is high, the antipyretics are indicated:
Sulphate of quinin in 1-dram doses; iodid of potash in 1-dram doses;
infusion of pine tops, of juniper leaves, of the aromatic herbs, or of
English breakfast tea are useful in the later stages. If complications
of the air passages or lungs are threatened, a large mustard poultice
should be applied to the belly and sides of the chest. Oxid of zinc
ointment should be used on confluent eruptions, and if the ulceration is
excessive it may have to be touched with caustic.

Great care must be taken to keep the animal protected from cold drafts
of air or other exposure. Blankets or sheets should be used on the body
and bandages on the legs. After convalescence is established, nutritious
feed of easy digestion and walking exercise are all that is needed,
except perhaps a little Glauber's salt to prevent constipation.

_Prophylactic treatment._--When horsepox breaks out among a large number
of horses, especially on a farm where there are a number of colts, it
may be assumed that the greater majority will contract the disease, and
it is more economical that they should have it and be through with it at
once. If the weather is moderate, all the animals which have not been
affected can be inoculated, which will produce the disease in a mild
form, with the eruption at a point of election, and render the danger of
complication a minimum one. For inoculation the discharge from the
pustules of a mild case should be selected and inoculated by
scarification on the belly or the under surface of the neck.

ANTHRAX.

_Synonyms:_ Carbuncle, splenic fever, splenic apoplexy, etc.;
charbon, sang de rate (French); Miltzbrand (German).

_Definition._--Anthrax is a severe and usually fatal contagious disease,
characterized by chills, great depression and stupor of the animal, and
a profound alteration of the blood. It is caused by the entrance into
the animal's body of a bacterium, known as the _Bacillus anthracis_, or
its spores.

Practically all animals are susceptible to anthrax. The herbivora are
especially susceptible, in the following order: The sheep, the ox, and
the horse. The guinea pig, the hog, the rabbit, mice, and other animals
die quickly from its effects. Man, the dog, and other omnivora and
carnivora may be attacked by it in a constitutional form as fatal as in
the herbivora, but fortunately in many cases develop from it only local
trouble, followed by recovery.

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