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The wool of sheep who die of the disease finds its way into commerce, and those employed in handling the wool have a form of anthrax known as wool-sorters 'disease in which lesions are found in the lungs, the organisms being mingled with the wool dust and inspired.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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Consider wool-sorters, tea-tasters, shepherds who know every sheep personally, etc.etc. Page 85.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Consider wool-sorters, tea-tasters, shepherds who know every sheep personally, etc.etc. Page 85.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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Anthrax, sometimes known as "wool-sorters 'disease", is extremely rare in the UK, and no cases have ever been found in British livestock.
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We next inspected the wool tables, to which two boys were incessantly bringing armfuls of rolled-up fleeces; these were laid on the tables before the wool-sorters, who opened them out, and pronounced in a moment to which _bin_ they belonged; two or three men standing behind rolled them up again rapidly, and put them on a sort of shelf divided into compartments, which were each labelled, so that the quality and kind of wool could be told at a glance.
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