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much alcohol, whilst in media poor in alcohol a higher temperature is 

 better. 



Bacillus aureus fcetidus.* — M. Herzog describes a new pathogenic 

 bacterium which was isolated from the liver and heart-blood. The 

 microbe is a bacillus * 6-2 fx. long, and from ' 5-0 ' 8 /j. thick ; often 

 in pairs, capsulated, non-motile, easily stainable, but not by Gram's 

 method. It liquefies gelatin, forms a golden-yellow pigment. The 

 colonies on solid media are yellow, round, and smooth. It coagulates 

 milk. All cultures, aerobic and anaerobic, exhale a foetid cheesy odour ; 

 they are killed by heating for 10 minutes to 62°. 



* Zeitschr. f. Hygiene u. Infekt., xlix. (1905) p. 356. 



