158 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BACTERIA. 
The experiments of Coze and Feltz, however, as 
well as those which confirm them, lead us to 
consider the constant presence of bacteria in pu- 
trid blood as a great probability in favor of the 
parasitic genesis of septicemia. 
There is a variety of septicemia which presents 
the closest resemblance to that of which we have 
just spoken; namely, puerperal septicemia. The 
preceding researches, with their consequences, are 
all applicable to this form of septicemia, and ex- 
plain to us its nature. This manner of seeing 
seems to us justified by the labors of Orth of 
Bonn, according to which the lymph and the 
blood contain Micrococci in considerable numbers. 
Klebs has verified the presence of the same 
parasites in the putrid infection consecutive to 
gun-shot wounds. Like the preceding authors, 
Birsch-Hirschfeld recognizes in the liquids of 
septicemia the presence of JZicrococci, and does 
not admit any other parasites. 
Charbon.— A malady in which the influence of 
inferior organisms has been especially sought is 
charbon. 
We will examine successively the results fur- 
nished by experimental pathology and by clinical 
observation, and will finish by a general discussion 
of the nature of charbon. 
Although this affection has been known and 
studied from the highest antiquity, and was de- 
scribed by Chabert (1782), Gilbert (1795), and 
many others, its parasitic nature has not long been 
