MURRAIN. A disease, one of the forms of Anthrax, (which see). Bloody murrain is malig nant anthrax, sometimes called black quarter from the engorgement of the neck, shoulder, quarter, breast, or side of the animal, producing a black and bloody appearance of the tissues in the latter stages of the disease. There will be lameness, stiffness, and great tenderness of the affected limb, with crackling when pressed, swelling of the parts, and sometimes oozing of yellow or bloody serum from the skin. Black tongue is another form, both in horses and cat tle, with black, purple, or red blisters on the tongue, ending in sores, with more or less swell ing. Murrain attacks all the herbivora, and may be communicated, in its malignant forms, to dogs, birds, and even man, taking the form in man of a malignant pustule, sometimes very fatal. As soon as murrain attacks a herd, remove all the well animals to a high, dry pas ture, and the ailing ones to another entirely iso lated. Above all let the water be pure. Put a
seton in the breast, daily smeared with irrifant ointment. As medicine, the following, is recom mended by the best English surgeons, especially by Youatt, than whom there is no better author ity: Take two to four drachms chloride of lime, one ounce prepared chalk, two drachms lauda num, mix and give every two or three hours in warm gruel. In severe cases,French veterinarians recommend quinine in one to two drachm doses every two or three hours. Stimulants, as car bonate of ammonia, are also valuable. If a vet erinary surgeon can be had, he would be likely to use hypodermic injections of two grains solu tion of iodine, five grains iodide of potassium, one ounce water, using a syringe full every hour, in extreme cases throwing it directly into the vein.