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hown by uneasiness, pawing, and looking to the sides is sometimes
manifested. The fæces are fluid or blood stained, the skin is harsh
and dry. The respiration becomes tumultuous and hurried, the nostrils
dilate, and the animal foams at the mouth. The temperature finally
declines, the animal staggers at every step; convulsions, and delirium or
coma ensue, and death closes the scene.—(Gresswell, Manual of Equine
Medicine.)

Symptoms of Charbon in other Animals.—Charbon in the Pig.—
Although the pig shows a very slight receptivity to charbon, the
affection has sometimes been observed in animals belonging to the
porcine species, in France, Germany, Belgium, and England, following
the ingestion of charbonous debris: it has also occasionally been trans-
mitted to them by causing them to ingest charbonous material, or by
inoculation.

An œdematou sinfiltration is generally produced around the point
where the virus has been absorbed. When the disease follows the inges-
tion of charbonous material, a swelling appears about the throat, due to
the infiltration of the tissues about that region, and there are observed,
together with the tumefaction of the throat, the characteristic symptoms
of charbonous angina, ulceration of the amygdylæ, and extension of
the tumefaction towards the face. Charbonous pigs may present the
majority of the symptoms observed in herbivora, fever, notable elevation
of the temperature, inappetance, general malaise, weakness of the hind
quarters, diarrhœa, red spots on the skin, etc. Death may ensue in from
one to six days.

Charbon in the Rabbit and Guinea-Pig.—The rabbit and guinea-
pig, more especially the latter, have a great receptivity for charbon,
which is very easily transmitted to them by the various methods of
inoculation, and which generally destroys them very rapidly. Gener-
ally the point of inoculation becomes the seat of a very marked
infiltration, more especially in the guinea-pig. The rabbit attacked
with charbon presents, one or two hours before death, restlessness, and
frequently changes his position; the respiration and circulation are
accelerated, the animal soon becomes apathetic, insensible, somnolent;
there is difficulty in co-ordinating movements, and death soon closes
the scene.

Charbon in Man.—Man, although less exposed and less apt to
contract charbon than animals, the small ruminants, for instance, may
sometimes contract it. He may receive the virus in three ways: by
accidental inoculation at the surface of the skin, by ingestion, and
by inhalation of the germs. The most common method is by accidental
cutaneous inoculation, which gives rise to a local lesion, the "malig-