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Show Proved hygienic meth h es and more perfect at quarantine there 'siftf, germs lurking , , C -ateriais in ing. Many persons have contracted this disease from shaving brushes, the bristles carrying the anthrax bacilli, coming in contact with an abrasion on the face, neck or hand of the person while shaving. Experiments have shown that the anthrax bacilli is far more resistant re-sistant to intense heat, antiseptics and germicides than other germs and survive even the complete and thorough quarantine regulations designed to prevent them from living. Fortunately this disease is far less common than formerly whose business brought them m contact with these animals. Death usually follows the initial symptoms symp-toms in a very few days, which are those of acute poisoning. Most frequently the anthrax germ comes into this country m bales of hides, bristles, furs, hair or wool, which, despite fumigation, retain their virility. A few years ago there were ten cases reported from one county in Pennsylvania, the patients all being employees of a factory importing goat hair from India and China, which was made into inner linings for cloth- because it is most frequently conveyed con-veyed in furs and brushes made from bristles imported from abroad. Generally it is very fatal. It destroyed de-stroyed millions of heads of stock in Europe, before scientific men knew just how to treat it the principal prin-cipal animals attacked being goats, horses, swine, cows, guinea pigs, 1 sheep and rabbits. It has been called by various terms, the chief ones being: "splenic "sple-nic fever," "wool-sorter's disease," "rag-picker's disease" and "malignant "malig-nant postule." Of all infectious diseases di-seases of animals, this one has the greatest mortality rate. In Russia, in one year, almost 75,000 horses died from anthrax, as well as a proportionately large number of farmers and soldiers . THE bwEAwnmmiMiMJx ANTHRAX There are three animal diseases which also attack man, namely, anthrax, an-thrax, malta fever, and glanders. Fortunately, today, animals can be vaccinated against these diseases, as human beings are against smallpox. small-pox. The disease which concerns man chiefly in this special field is anthrax, an-thrax, not because it is common for man to contract it from domestic do-mestic goats, sheep and cattle, but |