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From the foregoing table it will be seen that the largest 

 amount of gas is produced during the first twenty-four hours 

 and that the gas itself is made up of CO.^, one volume, to an 

 explosive gas, two volumes. During the past five years I 

 have examined a large number of cultures of B. coli which I 

 isolated from the intestinal contents of domesticated animals 



