The diseases and disorders of The diseases and disorders of the ox, with some account of the diseases of the sheep diseasesdisorderox00gres Year: 1889 138 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. doubtless bring forth still more research, and our readers will be eager to watch for the results of renewed and prolonged investigation. For our own part we believe Mr. Power's and Dr. Klein's work is thoroughly established, and we must here again insist upon the advantage of having all milk boiled before consumption, since this precaution will, there is good reason to believe, insure absolute safety
The diseases and disorders of The diseases and disorders of the ox, with some account of the diseases of the sheep diseasesdisorderox00gres Year: 1889 138 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. doubtless bring forth still more research, and our readers will be eager to watch for the results of renewed and prolonged investigation. For our own part we believe Mr. Power's and Dr. Klein's work is thoroughly established, and we must here again insist upon the advantage of having all milk boiled before consumption, since this precaution will, there is good reason to believe, insure absolute safety against all the ordinary contagions of which milk may be the carrier; and, as we do not consume other kinds of animal food without cookery, there is nothing remarkable in cooking milk as v,-ell as flesh. There is, more- over, one point of Professor Brown's report with which we are in complete accord—that, namely, in which he refers to the filthiness of many dairies, and the necessity which exists for the precautions which are voluntarily taken by some milk-sellers being enforced bj' law upon those by whom they are as yet neglected. Now, in reference to anthrax, more usually known when afiSicting human beings as woolsorters' disease or as malignant pustule, it is well known that rod-like bodies swarm in the blood / \ Fig. 15.—Heart's Blood of a Mouse Dead of Anthrax. 1. Blood Discs. 2. White blood-corpuscle. '6. Bacilli anthracis. Magnifying power 700. (Fresh specimen.)—After Klein. of sufferers from this dreadful scourge, whether they be animals or human beings. The different varieties of micro-organisms require various definite conditions for their growth, development, and multiplication. In very many cases damp and wet are asso- ciated with putrefactive changes, that is, with the decay of lifeless organic material, both vegetal and animal. This putrefaction or decay really depends upon the vital processes of certain micro- organisms. It is, moreover, by no means difl
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