Smyrna times., 1907-09-18
DR.. DAWSON DISCUSSES ANTHRAX
Consuming Bodies By Wood Fires cos,IV and
DanserOus-Authrax Must Be Stamped
By Destruction Of the Last Germ

ment has filed paper with the State
Board of Agriculture at Dover which
Is having the effect of not only trans.
forming the legal and CUSTOMARY
method OF disposing of cattle. dead of
the anthrax, but he has set the doubt-
Ing farmers to reading the Bible. The
State Board has had all kinds Of
trouble with farmers who not onlv
will not legally notify the authorities
or dispose OF their dead animals but
who doubt that there is such thing as
anthrax. Their neglect has caused
whole communities, inhabited bv man
and beasts to become infected with the
germs which never die, except when
administered a death-deaIing poison
or lotion. DR.. Dawson begins by or.
dering the farmers to look into their
Bibles. This they are doing and be-
coming convinced. "The disease is as
old as human history" says DR.. Daw-
son in his address. Moses records II
in Exodus TX, 9. Here DIR. Dawson
stops and in order to prove his asser.
ton the farmers have to get down
their Bibles. The passage following
the description of the sudden destruc-
ton of the cattle of the Egyptians
when they would not let the Isr ielites
go, says in this particular verse: "And
it shall become small dust in all the
lands of Egypt and shall be a boil
breaking out with blains upon man
and upon beast, throughout all the
land of Egypt"
Biblical Authorities Describe the Disease.
A reference to the veterinarian au-
thorities Verifies this as an expert de-
scription of anthrax. It is as DR..
Dawson says, ''an acute, infectio us
disease of plant eating animals, caused
by microbes (ou the dust) which en-
ters the circulating blood and by muI-
tiplicatiOn therein causes the rapid de-
structioE of the blood and the death
of the animal. Anthrax is immedi.
ately recognized upon man by its
breaking out in boils or malignant car
buncles. II was formerly very de.
structive to human life, as we'll as tC
animals, " says DIR. Dawson's circular
to the farmers as he proceeds. ''Now
adays, thanks to our increasing knowl
edge of sanitation, its ravages are con
! fined to the brute creation as a gen
eral thing. In 1917 near Naples, go, OOl
people are reported to have died from
anthrax. There is no disease which
strikes more different kinds of anima
and no disease which is more deadly
Also there is no disease which i
harder to deal with from the sanitar,
point of view nor harder to stamp out
g Soil is the prime factor in represent
= ing the microbe, when it is naturall
q wet, lmpermeable and rich in decom
: posing animal and vegetable matter
v The spere never forms in the livin
body, nor does it form in the dea
body for the body is buried unopened
The matter of the disposal of carcasse
has received very careful considers
tion, and the conclusion has beel
reached that it is useless to advise fo
: loving any method which is frequent
, ly impracticable or impossible undt
existing conditions.
Method Advised for Animals Affected.
1.-The method advised comprises, tt
- moment the animal is known to be sic
as determined by the use of the the
= mometer: 'Remove the animal
. the burial lot and tie it near the plac
- it is to be buried, to save handling an
scattering the infection. When it die
dig a grave. Then saturate the an
NAL with kerosene and set it afre. E
!" means of ropes tied around the fetlocl
% turn the animal saturate the other siC
~ and fire that, also the soles of the fee
:" (Of course this will not destroy Il
~ animal "When every hair has bee
:. burned off, dissolve one-pound carte
l. of chlorinated lime in sufficient wat
's' to make fluid that will just pour fro
u. the cup. Fill the nostrils with tn
a1 also the mouth and eyes, which shou
10 be pried open with stick dipped in Il
no solution. Saturate some cotton
rags and plug up the nostrils. Tu
the animal into it's grave. Sprinl
ed the ground with this solution a
ks shovel in the earth on which it b
iff stood
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