Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21
TRACES ANTHRAX BACK TO BIBLE
Veterinarian Dawsoa Gives Farmers
First Authority For Disease

DIVER, DEL, Sept. IT, DR.. Charles
f. Dawson, the new head OF the States
veterinary department., has filed paper
with the State Board of Agriculture here
which is having the effect of not only
transforming the legal and customary
method OF disposing OF cattle, dead Of
the fatal anthrax, but he las set the
doubling farmers t0 reading the Bible.
The State Board has all kinds Of trouble
with farmere who not only will not notify
the authorizes or dispose Of their dead an
inIals, but who doubt that there ia such d
thing rs anthrax. Their neglect has
caused whole communities, Inhabited by
man aud beasts, TO become infected with
these germs, which never die except
when administered death-dealing poison
or lotion. Dr. Dawson begins by order
ing the farmers to look into their Bibles.
This they are doing and becoming con.
yinced
"The disease is as old as human his
tory" says DIR. Dawson in his address.
Moses records it in Exodus 8. 81
Here DR.. Dawson stops and in order to
prove his assertion the farmers have to
get down their Bibles. The passage,
following the description of the sudden
destruction OF the cattle OF the Egyptians
when they would not let the Isralites 90,
says, in this particular verse:
"And it shall become small dust in all
the lands of Egypt, and shall be q
boil breaking out with blains upon man
and upon beast, throughout ail the land
OF Egypt
A reference to the veterinarian author
titles here verifiea this as an expert de-
scription of anthrax. 1t is as DR.. Dawson
says, "an acute infections disease of plant
eating animals, caused by microbe Ton
the DUST which enters the circulating
blood aud by multiplication therein causes
rapid destruction Of blood and the death
Of the animal. !"
Anthrax 10 immediately recognized
upon man by its breaking out il, boils or
malignant carbuncles
III was formerly very destructive to
human life, az well as TO animals" saye
DIR. DawsoB's circular to the farmers as
he proceeds. Nowadays, thanks TO our
increas ssing knowledge of sanitation, its
rasagts are confined to the brute crea.
ton, aa general thing. In 1917, near
Naples, 60,O00 people are reported to have
died from anthrax. In Sau Domingo, In
1IfOs 1OaVU0 pcifaitcN ~ pcAIUu VI hiA
weeks.
"Ehe method advised comprises the
moment the animal is known TO be sick
as determined by the use Of the ther-
imuneter.
Remove tie animal to the burial lot
aud tie il near the place il is to be burief,
70 save handling and scattering the infec-
ti0n. When 1t dies, dig q grave. Then
saturate the animal with kerosene and set
it afire. By means OF ropes tied around
the ietIocks. turn the animal, saturate the
oslser side and Ere that, aleo the soies Of
tile feet. tot course this will not destroy
the animal.
when every hair has been burned off,
dissolve one-pound carton Of chlorinated
lime In sufficient water TO make fluid
that viii just pour from the cup. Fill the
nostyils with this, also the mouth and
eyes, which should be pried open with
stick dipped la the solution. Saturate
some cotton or rags aud plug up the nos
trilss Turn the animal into its grave.
Sprinkle the ground With this solution
and shovel in The earth on which it mas
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