Excerpt from The Southern Practitioner, Vol. 16: An Independent Monthly Journal, Devoted to Medicine and Surgery, January, 1894As a plague among the lower animals in certain countries, as Europe and Asia, anthrax is said to work the greatest ravages of any disease known. It is a disease of the lower animals, and though widespread geographically, it is rarely known here. It is one of the diseases destructive to life, to which we on this continent can, to a great extent, claim exemption.Infection - In those countries where the disease prevails epi domically, it is communicated from animals by direct inoculation, as by the bites and stings Of insects, by feeding on the carcasses Of animals that have died Of the disease, or feeding in pastures where the germs have been preserved. This last, perhaps, is the usual mode of infection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.