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muscle of the right side there were three or four 

 "tubercles." The sac containing the heart (pericar- 

 dium), and both the thoracic and the abdominal air 

 sacs contained a good deal of fluid and also a gelatinous 

 mass of coagulated serum. In the pericardium this 

 latter also incorporated a dark brown mass of broken- 

 down blood. The walls of the various air sacs were 

 thickly studded with cheesy nodules ; the lungs also 

 contained a good many of these ; the spleen exhibited 

 some, and the walls of the intestines contained a great 

 number of various sizes. The liver was dark greenish 

 brown in colour, and the intestines were pale with 

 grumous looking contents, the mesentery presenting 

 extensive adhesions to the parts in relation with it. 

 There was a small "horn" at the commissure on one 

 side of the mouth. 



Material taken from the various tissues was 

 immediately sent up to one of the public, or rather 

 educational, laboratories in town, and a portion from 

 the lung was used for the inoculation of a guinea pig. 

 In three weeks ti?ne this animal spontaneously died of 

 acute and typical septicaemia, the spleen being "enor- 

 mously enlarged and full of small nodules, the liver 

 ditto." The report went on to say that there was a 

 slight collection of caseous matter at the seat of 

 inoculation ; an inguinal gland on the same side was 

 ■caseous and increased to the size of a haricot bean. 

 The lungs were slightly congested but presented no 

 nodules. Microscopically the affected organs and the 

 blood shewed the usual non-acid-fast septic bacilli. 

 On the same day as this guinea pig died a second was 

 inoculated from it, with the result that this one died 

 after four months interval, presenting the same mani- 

 festations of septicemia, both macro- and micro- 

 scopical, as the first one. Tubes of serum and 

 glycerine-agar which were inoculated at the same time 

 as the second guinea pig all shewed a mixed septic in- 



